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Tresch, Anke. and Fischer, Manuel. "Political Actors in Search of Media Attention: An Analysis of Mobilisation and Communication Strategies in Seven European Countries" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-03-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p280112_index.html>

Tresch, A. D. and Fischer, M. , 2008-08-28 "Political Actors in Search of Media Attention: An Analysis of Mobilisation and Communication Strategies in Seven European Countries" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-03-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p280112_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: According to the theory of "outside lobbying" (Kollman 1998), media access is a key resource for intermediate actors such as interest groups, SMOs or political actors to mobilize public opinion, pressure powerholders and exert indirect influence in public policymaking. However, media presence is known to be highly unequally distributed and biased towards state actors, whereas most intermediate political actors have very limited visibility in the news. In order to shed light on the question whether their difficulty in gaining media access is due to (inefficient) strategic behavior or rather to some sort of media bias, we combine two data sources and compare the political strategies involved in the media appearances of different types of actors with the effective use they make of these strategies. Our results reveal important differences in the composition of their respective action repertoire when one looks at media content. However, as all kinds of actors make similar use of the different strategies, our findings point to a media bias. Overall, thus, the effective use of outside strategies seems to be only loosely linked to the level of visibility political actors get in the media.

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