Politische Kommunikationskultur in Frankreich - Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme in vergleichender Perspektive

该研究项目的重点是支撑法国政客和记者互动的方向，以及塑造他们互动环境的结构性背景。为此目的，将对进行政治交流的机构和行为者群体进行分析。最重要的是通过对政治精英、他们的发言人、记者和最负盛名的国家媒体的编辑进行标准化采访，对法国政治传播文化进行实证分析。从理论上讲，这项研究借鉴了政治沟通文化(Pfetsch 2004)的概念，该概念衡量和充实了一套取向，并提供了衡量这些取向的指标。本研究的目的有二：首先，通过对政治传播文化的实证分析，可以检验政治阶层和媒体的态度模式中是否存在“纵容”。其次，法国的案例是欧洲层面全面比较研究的一部分，目前包括七个西欧国家(德国、奥地利、瑞士、西班牙、丹麦、瑞典和芬兰)。法国的情况是出于系统性的原因，因为研究设计对欧洲的这一努力至关重要。

The research project focuses on the orientations that underpin the interaction of French politicians and journalists and the structural contexts that shape their milieu of interaction. For that purpose the institutions within which political communication takes place and the actor constellation will be analyzed. Most important is the empirical analysis of French political communication culture by means of standardized interviews of political elites, their spokespeople, journalists and editors of the most prestigious national media. Theoretically, the study draws on the concept of political communication culture (Pfetsch 2004) which dimensions and substantiates the set of orientations and provides indicators for their measurement. The study sets out for two aims: First, the empirical analysis of political communication culture enables to test for the existence of “connivance” in attitudinal patterns of the members of the political class and the media. Second, the French case is part of an encompassing comparative study at the European level which at the moment includes seven Western European countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland). The French case is for systematic reasons in terms of the research design essential for this European endeavour.