Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions
Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions
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DOI：
10.1017/s0007123415000204
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发表时间：
2017-07-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Kritzinger, Sylvia
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作者：
Banducci, Susan;Giebler, Heiko;Kritzinger, Sylvia
获得信息是民主的标志，而民主要求公民知情。选民需要了解政党立场，以便选举选择反映偏好，使选民能够要求当选官员对政策表现负责。尽管大多数投票选择模型都假设政党完美地传递立场，但公民实际上是通过新闻媒体获得政治信息的，而这种新闻报道可能在显著性方面存在偏见--这导致了信息不对称。本研究探讨政党新闻报道中的信息不对称如何影响政党立场的知识。它发现，在新闻媒体上的信息提供有关一个党增加了知识，其立场，党的信息在非质量新闻减少知识差距比信息质量新闻。
Access to information is a hallmark of democracy, and democracy demands an informed citizenry. Knowledge of party positions is necessary for voters so that electoral choices reflect preferences, allowing voters to hold elected officials accountable for policy performance. Whereas most vote choice models assume that parties perfectly transmit positions, citizens in fact obtain political information via the news media, and this news coverage can be biased in terms of salience - which leads to asymmetric information. This study examines how information asymmetries in news coverage of parties influence knowledge about political party positions. It finds that the availability of information in the news media about a party increases knowledge about its position, and that party information in non-quality news reduces the knowledge gap more than information in quality news.