
Abstract
The relationship of political actors and journalists is a central topic in political communication research. However, it remains challenging to explain the different patterns of interaction observed in different contexts. To address that challenge, this study draws theoretically on the concept of “political communication cultures” and transfers the logic of internationally comparative research to the local level to analyze patterns and causes of politics–media interactions in a large number of diverse contexts. To this end, micro-level empirical data from a representative survey of more than 600 local political actors and journalists in fifty-two German cities were integrated with macro-level data describing the social, political, and media contexts of those cities. This allows us, first, to describe patterns of politics–media relations at the notoriously under-researched local level in terms of proximity, dependency, and seclusiveness of the politics–media milieu. Second, we are able to investigate various potential micro- and macro-level causes of those patterns. We show that different dimensions of relationships are variously affected by different factors; among these, media and political competition seem to be significant predictors of politics–media relations.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Keywords: | news/journalism; politicians/legislatures; international and comparative; quantitative survey |
Faculties: | Social Sciences > Communication |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science 300 Social sciences > 380 Commerce, communications and transportation |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-42783-7 |
ISSN: | 1531-328X; 1940-1620 |
Alliance/National Licence: | This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 42783 |
Date Deposited: | 29. Mar 2018, 09:18 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:18 |