1. The 2015–2019 British General Elections in Broadcast and Print News: Topics, Actors and Sentiments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Preface and Acknowledgements xiv
6. Introduction: Media Effects in British Electoral Politics 1
7. 1. The 2015–2019 British General Elections in Broadcast and Print News: Topics, Actors and Sentiments 21
8. 2. Intermedia Agenda-setting in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 General Elections 34
9. 3. Flows of Information in Election Campaigns: Who Influences Whom? 60
10. 4. Ageing and Agenda-setting in the 2015, 2017 and 2019 General Elections 83
11. 5. Media Partisanship, Issue Coverage and Individuals’ Perceptions of Issue Stance Importance 109
12. 6. Chucking Britain into the Cor-bin?: Newspapers and Perceptions of Party Leaders in the 2017 and 2019 General Elections 131
13. 7. Candidate Experience and the ‘Gender Penalty’ in the 2019 General Election 159
14. 8. How does Media Exposure to Candidates with Shared Gender and Ethnicity Impact Individuals’ Political Engagement? 183
15. 9. Constituency Competitiveness and Candidate Coverage: Exploring the Gendered Sentiment of News Media during Recent British General Elections 205
16. Concluding Thoughts: Emerging Trends in Political Communication and Electoral Politics in Britain 219
17. Appendices 233
18. Index 251