Does Democracy Die in Darkness? An Examination of the Relationship between Local Newspaper Health and Turnout in Municipal Politics

Autor:	Ben Andrews, Scott Pruysers
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal of Political Science. 55:958-971
ISSN:	1744-9324 0008-4239
Popis:	This study is, to our knowledge, the first quantitative analyses of the relationship between local print newspaper health and voter turnout in Canadian municipal elections. Municipal turnout is understudied in Canada, and the few studies on the topic overlook the role of local media. This cross-sectional study fills a gap in the literature by determining the relationship between local print newspaper health and municipal election turnout in a unique dataset of 233 populous Canadian municipalities. Results reveal a significant positive correlation between turnout and two measures of newspaper health: (1) the total number of newspapers per population and (2) the publication frequency of the largest newspaper in a municipality.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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