Party Communication in Routine Times of Politics: Issue Dynamics, Party Competition, Agenda-Setting, and Representation in Germany

✍ Scribed by Simona Bevern (auth.)

Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Simona Bevern addresses the questions what and why political parties communicate in the time between elections, focusing on the dynamic rise and fall of policy issues. Despite the central role of political parties and the alleged importance of communication, only few scholars have taken a closer look at the content and dynamics of parties’ communication in routine times of politics. In this study, interactions between parties’ communication, their party competitors, the legislative agenda and public opinion are studied in Germany for the years 2004–2009, making use of a novel data set and quantitative methods.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Theoretical Framework....Pages 15-44
Research Design....Pages 45-87
Party communication: static and dynamic descriptions....Pages 89-106
Dynamic patterns of inter-party competition....Pages 107-139
Parliamentary activities and party communication....Pages 141-160
Public Opinion and Party Communication....Pages 161-182
Beyond the domestic system: Party communication and the EU....Pages 183-201
Conclusion....Pages 203-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-233

✦ Subjects

Political Communication; Communication Studies; Comparative Politics

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