Commentators regularly lament the proliferation of both negative and/or strategic (“horse
race”) coverage in political news content. The most frequent account for this trend focuses …

This study investigates the change in Conservative Party behaviour during the 18 months
between the 2004 and 2006 Canadian federal elections. It asks: How did the Conservative …

This paper explores the relationship between campaign news and vote intentions, drawing
on manual content analyses from the 2004 and 2006 Canadian federal elections. The …

The conventional wisdom about the relationship between immigration and national electoral
politics in Canada, albeit based on limited research, is that immigration is non-partisan and …

In The Global President: International Communication and the US Government, scholars
Stephen J. Farnsworth, S. Robert Lichter and Roland Schatz provide an expansive …

Commercial marketing is a business philosophy that places the needs of the consumer at
the beginning of the sales process rather than at the end, and its practises include the …

Elections are not just about who casts ballots–they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and
history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a …

Positional issues are political issues that generate disagreement among citizens and divide
the electorate. Voting theories conventionally assume that positional issues have little effect …

This paper presents results from a content analytic study of evening news programs on
energy and environmental news topics-1,532 on NBC and 1,819 on CTV-from 1999 to 2009 …

Content-coded CBC evening newscasts are used in this article to examine reports on the
eight candidates for Liberal Party leader in the weeks before the party's 2006 convention. In …