News coverage of the national election campaigns in Hungary has undergone a radical
transformation since the democratic régime change took place in 1990. The mass media …

Written by a leading team of internationally distinguished political communication scholars,
this book offers the most comprehensive account on comparative political communication …

Through agenda-setting and framing of the election campaigns, news media can exert
influence on politics. We investigated the coverage of the September 2015 election …

This introduction presents an overview if the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book suggests the path dependency of journalistic styles …

European parliamentary elections are the defining event for political participation in the
European Union (EU). Little, however, is known about how recent European parliamentary …

Abstract News about the European Union (EU) looks different in different countries at
different points in time. This paper investigates explanations for cross-national and over-time …

The main aim of the paper is to analyse party manifestos that are conducted for national
parliamentary elections in Slovenia, a country that is recognised as one of the most firmly …

This article presents the main findings of an international comparative project on the news
coverage of the Polish EU presidency (2011). The study examines the coverage of Poland …

Election campaigns are not only party campaigns, but depend to a significant degree on the
efforts and activities of individual candidates. While some country-specific analyses of …