Watch again: Book event 'Media and the British General Elections'

Intro to book and roundtable discussion with editors, moderated by Bethany Dawson (Politico) and Martin Rosenbaum (BBC).

Media and the British General Elections of 2015-2019 is a new book published by Edinburgh University Press that explores the role of media in shaping political attitudes and behaviour during the last three general elections.

• First book-length study of media effects in contemporary British politics in 25 years

• Shows how to link media data and other data sources such as the British Election Study, and how to analyse such data in a rigorous manner

• Uses the British Election Longitudinal News Study data on media coverage of the 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections, often linked to British Election Study data, to assess a wide range of media effects, showing the versatility of such data

• Chapters focus on media effects ranging from media’s effects on each other—intermedia agenda-setting—to media’s effects on perceptions of problems and perceptions of leaders, to how the media covered women and ethnic minority candidates in these elections and the impact of such coverage

Edited by Susan Banducci, Laszlo Horvath, Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, Daniel Stevens