دورية
Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England
| العنوان: | Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England |
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| المؤلفون: | Foos, Florian, Bischof, Daniel |
| المصدر: | American Political Science Review, 116, 1, 19-37 |
| بيانات النشر: | USA, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Politikwissenschaft, Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen, Political science, News media, journalism, publishing, The Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File 1973-2002 (ZA3521), politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur, Massenkommunikation, Meinungsforschung, Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture, Mass Communication, Public Opinion Research, Großbritannien, Kampagne, Berichterstattung, Boulevardpresse, öffentliche Meinung, politischer Einfluss, Medienkonsum, Einstellung, EU, Great Britain, campaign, reporting, popular press, public opinion, political influence, media consumption, attitude |
| الوصف: | Whether powerful media outlets have effects on public opinion has been at the heart of theoretical and empirical discussions about the media's role in political life. Yet, the effects of media campaigns are difficult to study because citizens self-select into media consumption. Using a quasi-experiment - the 30-year boycott of the most important Eurosceptic tabloid newspaper, The Sun, in Merseyside caused by the Hillsborough soccer disaster - we identify the effects of The Sun boycott on attitudes toward leaving the EU. Difference-in-differences designs using public opinion data spanning three decades, supplemented by referendum results, show that the boycott caused EU attitudes to become more positive in treated areas. This effect is driven by cohorts socialized under the boycott and by working-class voters who stopped reading The Sun. Our findings have implications for our understanding of public opinion, media influence, and ways to counter such influence in contemporary democracies. |
| Original Identifier: | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-87904-8 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Zeitschriftenartikel journal article |
| تدمد: | 1537-5943 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S000305542100085X |
| URL الوصول: | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/87904 |
| حقوق: | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsgso.87904 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 15375943 |
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| DOI: | 10.1017/S000305542100085X |