Mediating elections in ireland: evidence from the 2011 general election
Mediating elections in ireland: evidence from the 2011 general election
This chapter argues that the issue of media influence on Irish elections is very much an open question. It sets out the main arguments about election campaigns and media coverage in the literature that looks at how the media might have an impact. It then looks at specific literature on Irish campaigns. It then examines, in detail, how national media outlets covered the 2011 general election. Amid increased concerns that media coverage of elections concentrates on process over substance by treating politics as a game rather than a sphere of policy choices, it finds that the media coverage of election 2011 was dominated not by personality politics but by policy discussions.
Keywords: election campaigns, media coverage, media affects, priming, agenda setting, framing, Ireland
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