The approach of governments to public information has changed from a rather traditional press release policy - based on interpersonal exchanges between politicians and journalists - to a professionalized and specialized process of strategic communication controlling the flow of news. In the...

In vielen Beiträgen über die Rolle der Markt- und Meinungsforschung in Deutschland wird vorausgesetzt, daß die Branche der Markt- und Meinungsforschung in den letzten Jahren gewachsen ist. Im Gegensatz zur herausragenden Rolle von Umfragen und Marktforschungsunternehmen in der modernen...

News value research has contributed a great deal to the understanding of the process of news selection. This study takes a fairly uncommon perspective by focusing on the news selection of recipients rather than journalists. It departs from the assumption that journalists and recipients select...

Basierend auf den Erkenntnissen der Soziologie sozialer Bewegungen werden die unterschiedlichen Konjunkturen in der Konstitutionsphase der NSDAP in München zwischen 1925 und 1930 untersucht. Insbesondere wird entlang von Framing-Strategien der Frage nachgegangen, ob und in welchem Maß die...

In einem von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten und am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin durchgeführten Projekt untersuchen wir anhand einer Inhaltsanalyse von Kommentaren überregionaler Tageszeitungen sowie von Anfragen und aktuellen Stunden im Bundestag, Parteiprogrammen und...

Der vorliegende Beitrag skizziert den theoretischen Hintergrund, das Untersuchungsdesign und die zentralen Fragestellungen des Projekts „Stimme der Medien im politischen Prozeß: Themen und Meinungen in Pressekommentaren“. Ziel des Projekts ist es, anhand einer Inhaltsanalyse von Kommentaren...

In discussions of citizenship law and concepts of nationhood, Germany has served scholars as a paradigm of ethno-cultural exclusivity. Until recent legislative changes, Germany adhered to the ius sanguinus principle where citizenship is acquired almost exclusively through German ancestry. This...

This paper takes the perspective of media as autonomous actors in the political process. In editorials media legitimately try to influence the agendas and decisions of the political system not only by explicitly expressing their opinions on issues and political actors, but also by assigning...

This essa, first, presents a short overview of various discussions and research trends in the field of politcal interest mediation; send, it clarifies some basic categories in this field; third, it locates parties, pressure groups and movements in a model of the political sphere; fourth, the paper...

On the basis of the Eurobarometer survey data of 1982, 1984, 1986, and 1989, trends as well as levels of support for new social movements are analysed comparatively. The countries involved are France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Great Britain. The analysis is based on a concept of...