The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in
over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a …

This report describes a review of the literature examining the effect of news use on
polarisation across Europe. In considering work concerned with both the supply side of …

Does the mass media influence the political agenda by generating political attention for the
issues it reports in the news? This is the basic question guiding this chapter. It has inspired …

How do individual politicians use the news media to reach their political goals? This study
addresses the question by proposing an actor-centered, functional approach. We distinguish …

Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of
Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media …

Legislative debates are a thriving field in comparative politics. They make representation
work by offering legislators the opportunity to take the floor and represent their constituents …

Spain has a highly partisan media system, with newspapers reaching self-selected partisan
audiences and espousing explicitly partisan editorial preferences. Do the newspapers of the …

This article provides the first systematic cross-country analysis of interest group
appearances in the news media. The analysis included three countries–the UK, Spain and …

The relationship between politicians and journalists is often portrayed as an intimate dance,
characterized by intFerdependence. The political agenda-setting approach has been used …

Agenda-setting is one of the most influential theories on the media's political influence
(Graber, 2005). While often focusing on the media's impact on public opinion, another …