Political Intermediation in a Spanish Election

这项关于1993年6月西班牙选举前的政治运动的研究是一项关于公民在政治运动中获取信息的方式的大型跨国研究的一部分。它着重于次级组织所起的作用和与朋友、同事和家人的个人接触，以及大众传播媒介对向潜在选民输送和组织政治资料的影响。这项研究作为更大的比较国家选举项目的一部分，将增进我们对竞选活动中信息流动的理解。这一沟通进程的有效性对公民在其投票决定中作出知情判断至关重要，因此对民主进程的健康至关重要。这笔资金将用于扩大调查的样本量，以便根据这些数据得出的结论更加可靠。研究人员将存档竞选材料，特别是在现代竞选中扮演重要角色的媒体广播，以便在竞选后准确评估信息的流动。如果没有对项目的立即支持，这些数据将无法检索。

This research on the political campaign leading up to the Spanish election in June of 1993 is part of a large cross-national study on the manner in which citizens obtain information during political campaigns. It focuses on the roles played by secondary organizations and personal contacts with friends, co-workers and family as well as the impact of the mass media on the channeling and structuring of political information to potential voters. This study, as part of the larger Comparative National Elections Project, will enhance our understanding of the flow of information in campaigns. The effectiveness of this communications process is vital to citizens making informed judgements in their voting decisions and is, therefore, critical to the health of the democratic process. The funding will be used to expand the sample size of the surveys so that conclusions drawn on the basis of these data will be more reliable. The researchers will archive campaign materials, especially the media broadcasts that appear to play such a major role in modern campaigns, so that the flow of information can be accurately assessed after the campaign. These data would not be retrievable without immediate support for the project.