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dc.contributor.advisorLaver, Michael
dc.contributor.authorBrandenburg, Heinz
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-28T10:59:58Z
dc.date.available2016-11-28T10:59:58Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citationHeinz Brandenburg, 'Agenda building : a time-series analysis of the challenging issue priorities of parties and media during the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2002, pp 284
dc.identifier.otherTHESIS 7022
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/77878
dc.description.abstractThis is a study of agenda building during an election campaign, which is a dynamic process and hence calls for the application of time-series analysis. The data, from the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK., consist of repeated observations at regular time intervals. The variables are political parties and media actors (television and the press), whose daily attention to different issues and policy dimensions was content analysed and then quantified. While some simple methods can be applied to the quantification of changing attention to individual issues, a more sophisticated time series model can be applied only when data are aggregated to the level of policy dimensions. For the 1997 campaign, issues were grouped into nine separate policy dimensions. Instead of treating policy dimensions separately, a time-series cross-section (TSCS) design was applied, with policy dimensions as cross-sections and campaign days as time units. The main purpose of time series analysis is to establish Granger-causality between different variables, which have repeated observations on each cross-section. In order to accomplish this, separate regressions, with either parties or media as dependent variables, were carried out.
dc.format1 volume
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTrinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://stella.catalogue.tcd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12436113
dc.subjectPolitical Science, Ph.D.
dc.subjectPh.D. Trinity College Dublin
dc.titleAgenda building : a time-series analysis of the challenging issue priorities of parties and media during the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK
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dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
dc.rights.ecaccessrightsopenAccess
dc.format.extentpaginationpp 284
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