The Role of Media Competition in Elections: How Right-Wing Alternative Media Affect Educated Voters in the Czech Republic
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7441/joc.2024.04.04" target="_blank" >10.7441/joc.2024.04.04</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Role of Media Competition in Elections: How Right-Wing Alternative Media Affect Educated Voters in the Czech Republic
Original language description
In the competitive landscape of political communication, alternative right-wing media have become a key player in shaping public trust and opinion, often spreading narratives that challenge traditional information sources and include misinformation. Although a relationship between the consumption of alternative right-wing media and voting preferences has been established, it remains unclear what role education plays in this connection. Recent research suggests that this role may not be statistically significant, even though it is often assumed that educated individuals should be more critical of misinformation. The objective of this study is to investigate the validity of this relationship in the Czech Republic. A sample of 807 Czech respondents was used to test the influence of higher education on the choice of the type and number of sources of political news, the belief in the information published in these media, and finally, the role of education level between the consumption of political news and the choice of illiberal political parties such as ANO, SPD and KSČM. Interestingly, alternative news media are perceived as a reliable source of political information, particularly by those with a college education. However, exposure to such media does not appear to be a significant predictor of support for populist anti-system political parties, in contrast to less educated citizens.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Competitiveness
ISSN
1804-171X
e-ISSN
1804-1728
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
60-82
UT code for WoS article
001399025600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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