1st Edition

The Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World

Edited By Jesper Strömbäck, Lynda Lee Kaid Copyright 2008
    470 Pages
    by Routledge

    490 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Handbook of Election Coverage Around the World focuses on the news coverage of national elections in democracies around the globe. It brings together and compares election news coverage within a single framework, offering a systematic consideration of various factors. Considering the prominence and power of the press in the election process, this volume will offer unique breadth in its global consideration of the topic.

     The volume will appeal to scholars in political communication, political science, mass media and society, and others studying elections and media coverage around the world.

     

    1 A Framework for Comparing Election News Coverage Around the World

    Jesper Strömbäck and Lynda Lee Kaid

    PART I: ELECTION NEWS COVERAGE IN COUNTRIES WITH MAJORITARIAN ELECTIONS

    2 Media Coverage of U.S. Elections: Persistence of Tradition

    Mira Sotirovic and Jack McLeod

    3 Trends in Television Network News Coverage of U.S. Elections

    Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter

    4 Media Matter: Election Coverage in Canada

    Elisabeth Gidengil

    5 Election News Coverage in the U.K.

    Margaret Scammell and Holli A. Semetko

    6 Free Journalism under Control: Election Coverage in France

    Eric Darras

    7 Australia: Gladitorial Parties and Volatile Media in a Stable Polity

    Rodney Tiffen

    8 Elections in India: One Billion People and Democracy

    Lars Willnat and Annette Aw

    PART II: ELECTION NEWS COVERAGE IN COUNTRIES WITH PROPORTIONAL ELECTIONS

    9 The Netherlands: Media Logic and Floating Voters?

    Claes H. de Vreese

    10 Swedish Election News Coverage: Towards Increasing Mediatization

    Jesper Strömbäck

    11 Election Coverage in Spain: From Franco’s Death to the Atocha Massacre

    Esteban López-Escobar, Teresa Sádaba and Ricardo Zugasti

    12 Election News Coverage in Greece: Between Two Logics

    Nicolas Demertzis and George Pleios

    13 Campaigns in the Holy Land: The Content and Effects of Election News Coverage in Israel

    Tamir Shaefer, Gabriel Weimann and Yariv Tsfati

    14 Election News Coverage in Poland

    Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska and Bartlomiej Lódzki

    15 Media Coverage of Election News in the Republic of Serbia

    Misha Nedeljkovich

    16 Democratization and Election News Coverage in Brazil

    Mauro P. Porto

    17 Media and Elections in South Africa: Finding a Foothold on the Democratic Path

    Amanda Gouws and Arnold S. de Beer

    PART III: ELECTION NEWS COVERAGE IN COUNTRIES WITH COMBINED SYSTEMS

    18 Characteristics and Dynamics of Election News Coverage in Germany

    Frank Esser and Katharina Hemmer

    19 News Coverage of Elections in the Long Transition of Italian Democracy

    Franca Roncarolo

    20 News Coverage of National Elections in Hungary after 1990

    Jolán Róka

    21 Election News Coverage in Bulgaria

    Lilia Raycheva and Daniela V. Dimitrova

    22 Election Coverage in the Russian Federation

    Sarah Oates

    23 Election Coverage in Mexico: Regulation Meets Crony Capitalism

    Chappell Lawson

    24 The Media Coverage of Election Campaigns and Its Effects in Japan

    Shinichi Saito and Toshio Takeshita

    PART IV: ELECTION NEWS COVERAGE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

    25 News Coverage of EU Parliamentary Elections

    Michaela Maier and Jürgen Maier

    26 Election News Coverage Around the World: A Comparative Perspective

    Lynda Lee Kaid and Jesper Strömbäck

     

    Biography

    Jesper Strömbäck is Professor in media and communication and Lubbe Nordström Professor and Chair in journalism at Mid Sweden University. He is also director at the Centre for Political Communication Research there. His research specialties include political news coverage, political campaigning and political marketing, and the news coverage of wars and crises. He has published more than ten books as well as articles in scholarly journals.

    Lynda Lee Kaid is Professor of telecommunication in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. Her research specialties include political advertising and news coverage of political events. She has also done work on political television in several Western European countries. She is the author/editor of more than 25 books and has written more than 150 journal articles and book chapters.

     

    "The book offers a wealth of information on an impressive array of countries and makes a significant contribution to the literature.This handbook not only reveals how scholarship on news coverage of elections around the worldhas developed, but it also shows how much still remains to be accomplished." -- William L. Benoit, Journal of Communication