Struggling up the hill

Short-term effects of parties’ contacting, political news and everyday talks on turnout

Bibliographic Data

ID6314973
AuthorsRüdiger Schmitt-Beck (University of Mannheim), Rüdiger Schmitt‐beck (0000-0003-1673-6672, University of Mannheim, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume22
Issue2
Pages227-240
Publication date2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354068815605675
OpenAlexW2333358386
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited29

This paper examines the effects of three main forms of campaign communication on voter turnout in the 2013 German Federal Election – party contact, the news media’s political coverage and everyday political discussions. Our study is innovative in that it uses panel data to reduce the problems of endogeneity and examines the impact of each information source controlling for the other two. The results show that media exposure via broadsheet newspapers is the strongest stimulus to turnout, followed by parties’ mediated electioneering efforts. We also find that under certain conditions, exposure to information sources can also demobilize voters

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