Political Communication Cultures in Western Europe - A Comparative Study

本研究的目的是分析驱动政治精英与媒体之间关系的态度、规范和价值观，从而发现11个西方民主国家政治沟通行为的潜在模式。政治传播行为者的取向被定义为政治传播文化，政治传播文化被视为一个国家总体政治文化的一部分。虽然政治传播文化被理解为指导政治行为者和政治记者之间互动的取向是一个普遍特征，但我们必须注意到，它与政治和媒体系统中根深蒂固的国家具体国情有关。本文的研究目的是通过对相关行为者的调查来考察德国的政治传播文化。该研究是ESF框架项目的一部分，除德国外，该项目还调查了其他10个国家的政治传播文化（F、UK、NL、CH、AU、I、ES、DK、SWE、FIN）。最终，这项研究的目的是系统地绘制出欧洲政治传播文化的类型，并发现各国之间的异同。

The objective of the study is to analyze the attitudes, norms, and values that drive the relationship between political elites and the media and thereby detect the underlying patterns of political communication behaviors in 11 Western democracies. The orientations of actors in political communication are conceptualized as political communication culture which is seen as part of the general political culture of a country. While it is a general feature that political communication culture is to be understood as the orientations that guide the interaction between political actors and political journalists, we must note that it is related to country specific national contexts engrained in the political and media systems. It is the aim of our study to investigate the political communication culture in Germany by surveying the relevant actors. The study is part of an ESF Framework project in which in addition to Germany 10 other national political communication cultures (F, UK, NL, CH, AU, I, ES, DK, SWE, FIN) are investigated. Eventually, the aim of the study is to systematically map out the types of political communication cultures in Europe and detect similarities and differences across countries.