Party Communication in Routine Times of Politics
Issue Dynamics, Party Competition, Agenda-Setting, and Representation in Germany
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Beschreibung
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. ContentsDynamic patterns of inter-party competitionDynamics between parliamentary activities and overall party communicationDynamics between public opinion and overall party communicationThe Europeanization of party communicationMethods of analysis: time series and multi-level regression models Target GroupsLecturers and Students of Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Communication and Media StudiesPolitical Parties, Organisations, Consultants in the area of Political Communications, Public and Media Relations The AuthorAfter successful completion of the PhD program in political science at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences of Mannheim University, Simona Bevern is now working in research management.
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.
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