Incumbency Dominance in Letters to the Editor : Field Experimental Evidence

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes

Incumbency Dominance in Letters to the Editor : Field Experimental Evidence

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Datum

2019

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Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus

Kerkhof, Anna

Münster, Johannes

DOI (zitierfähiger Link)

https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2018.1540447

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Wirtschaftswissenschaften

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Political Communication. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2019, 36(3), pp. 337-356. ISSN 0195-7473. eISSN 1091-7675. Available under: doi: 10.1080/10584609.2018.1540447

Zusammenfassung

This article reports the results of a randomized field experiment conducted three weeks before the 2017 federal election in Germany. Four different versions of a letter to the editor were sent to all the German daily newspapers that handle letters to the editor independently. The versions differed in the subject matter of the letter, the chancellor Angela Merkel versus the main challenger Martin Schulz, and in the evaluation of this subject, positive versus negative. The experiment was designed to test for three different types of media bias: political bias, negativity bias, and incumbency dominance. We find no political bias in the decisions to print letters, and no statistically significant negativity bias. We do observe incumbency dominance: letters about the chancellor were 40% more likely to be printed.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

gatekeeping, incumbency dominance, media bias, negativity

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DERTWINKEL-KALT, Markus, Anna KERKHOF, Johannes MÜNSTER, 2019. Incumbency Dominance in Letters to the Editor : Field Experimental Evidence. In: Political Communication. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2019, 36(3), pp. 337-356. ISSN 0195-7473. eISSN 1091-7675. Available under: doi: 10.1080/10584609.2018.1540447

BibTex

@article{DertwinkelKalt2019Incum-53488,
  year={2019},
  doi={10.1080/10584609.2018.1540447},
  title={Incumbency Dominance in Letters to the Editor : Field Experimental Evidence},
  number={3},
  volume={36},
  issn={0195-7473},
  journal={Political Communication},
  pages={337--356},
  author={Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus and Kerkhof, Anna and Münster, Johannes}
}

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