Reporting on Diversity? Explaining Media Coverage of the Substantive and Symbolic Content of Parties’ Campaign Messages

• In Event: European Political Parties

Brief Overview

We predict that the sex of a party’s leader and personal characteristics of its MPs predict the content of media reports on its election campaigns. We show evidence using content analysis of media reports from the 2014 European Parliament elections.

Authors

• Zachary David Greene, University of Strathclyde

• Maarja Luhiste, Newcastle University (UK)