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Does the Information Source Matter? Newspaper Readership, Political Preferences and Attitudes Towards the EU in the UK, France and the Netherlands

Year: 2017

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Previous research has indicated that political radicals and cynics tend to obtain information from like-minded media sources. In this study, we relate media use to political preferences by utilising a cross-national large-N data set collected during the European elections in 2014 through an online opt-in sample and the European Election Studies (EES), in order to test whether individuals who are negatively opinionated towards the EU and the political elite get informed via media that have a similar attitude towards the EU and politics. Our findings indicate that Eurosceptic voters differ considerably from moderate and pro-European voters in terms of their daily media use. In addition, we find that getting informed via a left-wing- or a right-wing-oriented mainstream media matters, when explaining voter’s policy preferences.

Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59643-7_5

Authors: Benjamin Leruth, Yordan Kutiyski, André Krouwel, Nicholas J. Startin

Institutions: University of Kent, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Bath

Language: English

Topic: Media Studies and Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2589897146

FWCI: 6.768

Cites: 28

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10