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Political agenda-setting and -building in small consensus democracies: Relationships between media and parliament in the Netherlands and Switzerland

Published inAgenda Setting Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 109-134
Publication date2020
Abstract

This paper analyzes the mutual influence between media and political agendas in the Netherlands and Switzerland. While these two countries share a number of similarities, they also exhibit some important differences (e.g. the frequency of parliamentary meetings) that are likely to affect the patterns of influence. Time-series cross-section analyses of monthly data about issue attention in parliamentary questions and in media coverage for the period 1995–2003 (Switzerland) and 1995–2011 (Netherlands) provide partial support for our hypotheses. Agenda-setting and -building effects are overall stronger in Switzerland, which may be due to differences in the workings of national parliaments and varying degrees of mediatization. Moreover, our analyses reveal more pronounced differences between the coalition and opposition parties in Switzerland. Overall, this study demonstrates that it is important to consider smaller institutional differences when studying political agenda-setting and -building in a cross-national perspective.

Keywords
  • Agenda-building
  • Comparative agenda's project
  • Newspapers
  • Parliament
  • Political agenda-setting
  • Switzerland
  • The Netherlands
  • Time series analysis
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SCIARINI, Pascal, TRESCH, Anke, VLIEGENTHART, Rens. Political agenda-setting and -building in small consensus democracies: Relationships between media and parliament in the Netherlands and Switzerland. In: Agenda Setting Journal, 2020, vol. 4, n° 1, p. 109–134.
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ISSN of the journal2452-0063
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