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The National Press and Party Voting in the UK

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  • Kenneth Newton
  • Malcolm Brynin

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The difficulty with resolving the classic problem of whether newspapers influence voting patterns is self‐selection: readers select a paper to fit their politics, and newspapers select particular types of readers. One way round this chicken‐and‐egg problem is to compare the voting behaviour of individuals whose politics are reinforced by their paper, with those who are cross‐pressured by their paper, and to compare both with those who do not regularly read a paper. Using the British Household Panel study to analyse voting patterns in 1992 and 1997, this study suggest that newspapers have a statistically significant effect on voting, larger for Labour than Conservative sympathizers, and larger for the 1992 than the 1997 election. The broader implications of these findings for British politics and democracy are discussed.

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  • Kenneth Newton & Malcolm Brynin, 2001. "The National Press and Party Voting in the UK," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 49(2), pages 265-285, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:49:y:2001:i:2:p:265-285
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00313
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    1. Neil T. Gavin & David Sanders, 2003. "The Press and Its Influence on British Political Attitudes under New Labour," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 51(3), pages 573-591, October.
    2. Jonathan McDonald Ladd & Gabriel S. Lenz, 2009. "Exploiting a Rare Communication Shift to Document the Persuasive Power of the News Media," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 53(2), pages 394-410, April.
    3. Qingning Wang, 2022. "The China–EU relation and media representation of China: the case of British newspaper’s coverage of China in the post-Brexit referendum era," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 283-303, September.

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