Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Juan Carlos Cuestas
Author-Name: Sebastián Freille
Author-Name: Patricio O'Gorman
Title: The media and public agendas: testing for media effects in Argentina during the Kirchner administration
Abstract: In this paper we examine the presence of agenda-setting effects by the print
media in Argentina during 2003 and 2008. Using previously unavailable monthly
data on newspapers mentions we test two hypotheses about the relationship
between the different agendas. We find support for the hypothesis that there
were media effects during our period of analyisis. More specifically, we find that
the total number of newspaper mentions of the President positively influenced
public confidence in the government. Finally, there is also evidence of a strong
and stable relationship between the total number of economic news and leading
economic indicators.
File-URL: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/310279/The-media-and-the-public-agenda-testing-for-media-effects.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2010
Creation-Date: 2010-05
Keywords: Agenda-setting, Public opinion, Cointegration, Media effects
Handle: RePEc:nbs:wpaper:2010/5