Political Communication Cultures in Western Europe is a comparative study wich aims at analysing the relationship between political elites and the media in seven Western European contries.
The objective is to investigate the attitudes, norms and values that drive the relationship between political actors and journalists and thereby detect the underlying patterns of political communication behaviors in Western democracies. Taken together, these orientations can be summarised as Political Communication Culture of a country.
In the first phase of the project, surveys will be carried out in seven Western European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. In a second phase, surveys are planned in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
The project is carried out under the auspices of the EUROCORES ECRP 2006 Programme. Funding is provided by the respective national research councils of the participating countries.
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