Diversity in the news? A study of interest groups in the media in the UK, Spain and Denmark

Binderkrantz, Anne Skorkjær; Chaqués Bonafont, Laura; Halpin, Darren R.

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123415000599

Diversity in the news? A study of interest groups in the media in the UK, Spain and Denmark

Citation

Binderkrantz AS, Chaqués L, Halpin DR. Diversity in the news? A study of interest groups in the media in the UK, Spain and Denmark. B J Pol S. 2017 Apr;47(2):313-28. DOI: 10.1017/S0007123415000599

Abstract

This article provides the first systematic cross-country analysis of interest group appearances in the news media. The analysis included three countries – the UK, Spain and Denmark – each representing one of Hallin and Mancini’s 1 three overall models of media and politics: the liberal system, the polarized pluralist system and the democratic corporatist system. It finds important similarities across countries with high levels of concentration in media coverage of groups, more extensive coverage of economic groups than citizen groups, and differential patterns of group appearances across policy areas and between right- and left-leaning papers. It also identifies country variation, with the highest degree of concentration among group appearances in Spanish newspapers and the most attention to economic groups in Danish newspapers.

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Data replication sets are available at http://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/BJPolS and online appendices are available at http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1017/S0007123415000599