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Media effects in a polarized political system: the case of Turkey

dc.contributor.coauthorYıldırım, Kerem
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorÇarkoğlu, Ali
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:06:55Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractCan 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.
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dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.sponsorshipTuerkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu [111K006] Funding was provided by Tuerkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (Grant No. TOVAG, 111K006, 2012).
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11109-023-09867-w
dc.identifier.eissn1573-6687
dc.identifier.issn0190-9320
dc.identifier.quartileQ1
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-023-09867-w
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/9058
dc.identifier.wos946163100001
dc.keywordsVote choice
dc.keywordsMedia
dc.keywordsPersuasion
dc.keywordsPolarization
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofPolitical Behavior
dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.titleMedia effects in a polarized political system: the case of Turkey
dc.typeJournal Article
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