Research Project: 2002,2007 ve 2011 Genel Secim Kampanyalari Suresince Ulusal Basinda Yer Alan Siyasi Haberlerin Karsilastirmali Bir Analizi
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TB.00069
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Çarkoğlu, Ali
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Publications
Dynamics of campaign reporting and press-party parallelism: Rise of competitive authoritarianism and the media system in Turkey
(Taylor and Francis, 2021) Baruh, Lemi; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Yildirim, Kerem; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of International Relations; Yes; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Social Sciences and Humanities
How do press-party parallelism dynamics unfold in media systems that experience competitive authoritarianism? We analyze the content of news coverage of political parties across four consecutive national election campaigns in Turkey (2002, 2007, 2011, and 2015) to track changes in press-party parallelism. We explore three dimensions of press-party parallelism in order to study its dynamics: visibility of political parties, the effective number of parties represented in newspapers, and lastly, favorability toward political parties. First, within each campaign cycle, as election day approaches, visibility of the incumbent party increases while the visibility of other parties tends to decline. Likewise, the incumbent party's visibility increases across the four elections we study. Second, for all newspaper groups, the number of parties that receive favorable or unfavorable coverage declines over consecutive election terms. Third, the incumbent party is the only that gains in terms of positive coverage within and across each election campaign period. Taken together, we show evidence for press-party parallelism dynamics in a competitive authoritarian country.
Media effects in a polarized political system: the case of Turkey
(Springer, 2024) Çarkoğlu, Ali; Yıldırım, Kerem; Department of International Relations; Yes; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Can the media influence vote choice when the media and the party system are highly polarized, and vote shifts are infrequent? We argue affirmatively that media significantly influences vote choice even in such systems. First, we show that information filtered through the media has an independent effect on vote choice. Second, we link respondents’ newspaper choices in the pre-election survey with the favorability of major political parties in their newspapers during the campaign period. Third, we provide rich empirical data from media content and voter surveys. Our analyses suggest that media content has a significant effect in influencing party support and vote switches during the campaign periods of four general elections between 2002 and 2015 in the increasingly polarized setting of Turkey. We further break down this effect to study how favorable coverage and visibility influence party support differently among partisan loyalists and switchers. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023.
Media effects in a polarized political system: the case of Turkey
(Springer, 2023) Çarkoğlu, Ali; Yıldırım, Kerem; Department of International Relations; Yes; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
Can the media influence vote choice when the media and the party system are highly polarized, and vote shifts are infrequent? We argue affirmatively that media significantly influences vote choice even in such systems. First, we show that information filtered through the media has an independent effect on vote choice. Second, we link respondents' newspaper choices in the pre-election survey with the favorability of major political parties in their newspapers during the campaign period. Third, we provide rich empirical data from media content and voter surveys. Our analyses suggest that media content has a significant effect in influencing party support and vote switches during the campaign periods of four general elections between 2002 and 2015 in the increasingly polarized setting of Turkey. We further break down this effect to study how favorable coverage and visibility influence party support differently among partisan loyalists and switchers.
