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SUBMITTER: Aaldering L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5833811 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aaldering Loes L van der Meer Tom T Van der Brug Wouter W
The international journal of press/politics 20171128 1
Conventional wisdom holds that party leaders matter in democratic elections. As very few voters have direct contact with party leaders, media are voters' primary source of information about these leaders and, thus, the likely origin of leader effects on party support. Our study focuses on these supposed electoral effects of the media coverage of party leaders. We examine the positive and negative effects of specific leadership images in Dutch newspapers on vote intentions. To this end, we combin ...[more]