When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe

IF 4.2 1区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Comparative Political Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-07 DOI:10.1177/00104140231169029

Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Caterina Froio

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Abstract

When do the media cover far-right protests? News coverage matters for the entrenchment of the far right in contemporary democracies, but little comparative research has looked at what drives news attention to far-right mobilization. We apply a classic input–output process model of news selection bias to test the hypothesis that the visibility of far-right protests events depends on the characteristics of protest initiators, type of action, and reactions. We appraise this via logistic regressions on an original dataset of 5972 protest events retrieved from online press releases by far-right groups (input) and national quality newspapers (output) in 11 European countries (2008–2018). The analysis confirms that news media are particularly responsive to contentious action, protest around migration issues, and action–reaction chains between political opponents. Our findings shed light on the role of news organizations in the success of the far-right and on the pathways by which these movements shape public agendas.

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当极右翼制造新闻：欧洲极右翼动员的抗议特征与媒体报道

媒体什么时候报道极右翼抗议活动？新闻报道对极右翼在当代民主国家的巩固很重要，但很少有比较研究关注是什么促使新闻关注极右翼动员。我们应用新闻选择偏差的经典输入-输出过程模型来检验极右翼抗议事件的可见性取决于抗议发起人的特征、行动类型和反应的假设。我们通过对5972起抗议事件的原始数据集的逻辑回归来评估这一点，这些抗议事件是从11个欧洲国家（2008-2018年）的极右翼团体（输入）和国家级报纸（输出）的在线新闻稿中检索到的。分析证实，新闻媒体对有争议的行动、围绕移民问题的抗议以及政治对手之间的行动-反应链反应特别强烈。我们的研究结果揭示了新闻机构在极右翼成功中的作用，以及这些运动塑造公共议程的途径。

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Comparative Political Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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8.40

自引率

4.00%

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期刊介绍： Comparative Political Studies is a journal of social and political science which publishes scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels. We are particularly interested in articles which have an innovative theoretical argument and are based on sound and original empirical research. We also encourage submissions about comparative methodology, particularly when methodological arguments are closely linked with substantive issues in the field.