Reference : Het Effect van Lokale Verkiezingscampagnes Op Politieke Kennis. De Case van de Antwer...
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Law, criminology & political science : Political science, public administration & international relations
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32951
Het Effect van Lokale Verkiezingscampagnes Op Politieke Kennis. De Case van de Antwerpse Lokale Verkiezingen
English
[en] The effect of local election campaigns on political knowledge. The case of the local elections in Antwerp
Lefevere, Jonas []
Lesschaeve, Christophe mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE) >]
2014
Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap
Boom Lemma Uitgeverij
42
1
71–88
Yes
National
1384-6930
1875-7286
The Netherlands
[en] political knowledge ; elections
[en] Political knowledge is crucial for the functioning of democracy: only informed citizens can cast a substantiated vote. Therefore, it is especially important that citizens are informed during election campaigns. Indeed, election campaigns can educate the public on the various parties and candidates. However, extant research mostly focuses on national election campaigns. Local election campaigns often get less (media) attention, yet have been seldom researched. In this paper we investigate whether citizens also learn during local election campaigns. We use panel data collected during the 2012 Antwerp local election campaign. We find that although the campaign did cause slight knowledge gains, it mainly increased the existing knowledge gap between well- and ill-informed citizens. On the other hand the campaign did amend some other gaps: uncertain voters learned more, and voters learned most about parties they evaluated highly.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32951

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