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  • Local elections do not increase local news demand

  • Joshua McCrain, Erik Peterson
  • Journal:
    Political Science Research and Methods , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 December 2023, pp. 1-11
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  • Anemic demand for local news has contributed to an industry crisis. We consider whether local elections, which highlight the ability of local television stations and newspapers to provide information that is unavailable from national news outlets, increase local media use. While we show these elections are a time of increased attention to local politics in the news and among the public, we also find local media outlets do not benefit from this when considering behavioral news use measures. Relative to news outlets in cities without an election, local television remains substantively unchanged during local elections. Newspaper website traffic is largely stable, although it falls slightly the month after an election. In both cases these differences are small, even when considering close races and those happening off the federal election cycle. This shows limits on the ability of salient local political events to motivate local news use.

  • 7 - How Do Citizens Know Workers Are in Office?

  • Tiffany D. Barnes, University of Kentucky, Yann P. Kerevel, Louisiana State University, Gregory W. Saxton, Texas Tech University
  • Book:
    Working Class Inclusion
    Published online:
    26 October 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023, pp 182-203

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 examines how the relationship between working-class representation and positive evaluations of representative institutions varies among citizens who are more or less likely to be aware of working-class representation. Even though voters can learn about working-class representation through political campaigns, news, and paying attention to politics, we show that levels of political interest and news consumption vary dramatically among citizens within the same country – implying that not all voters are equally likely to be aware of working-class representation. Then, using survey data from across Latin America, we demonstrate that the positive relationship between working-class representation and better evaluations of representative institutions is strongest among citizens with high levels of political interest and those who are avid news followers.