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📢 New article 🌟 👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social , Maiken Røed @ma1ken.bsky.social and Gunnar Thesen 🔎 Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage 📗 Open Access in European Journal of Political Research doi.org/10.1017/S147...

🆕 Friends in high places 🤳 @allernelin.bsky.social, Maiken Røed of @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social & Gunnar Thesen compile survey data and daily news to highlight links between the media notability of #InterestGroups and their organisational connections to political parties 🗞️

Happy to share this new paper, published open access in the European Journal of Political Research.👇

However, since stronger organizational ties grant interest groups direct access to political parties, the findings above all indicate that media coverage of groups reflects existing patterns of access to key political decision-makers.

To the extent that organizational ties to parties help interest groups with fewer financial and human resources that seek media attention to actually attain this goal, ties may contribute to more diverse media coverage.

The study also contributes to the literature on party–interest group organizational relationships, which has so far focused on describing and explaining the existence of such ties rather than their consequences.

Hence, our study throws new light on what factors drive media attention to interest groups, and offers a novel description of interest groups, parties, and power in politics and political communication.

We find support for our hypotheses: Interest groups with stronger ties to political parties are generally more likely to appear in the news, and this association is strengthened when the parties themselves get more media attention.

The research design does not allow for strong causal inferences; however, we are able to control for ‘the usual suspects’ of possible confounders, including group characteristics.

We use interest group survey data on the existence of a wide range of ties between specific groups and parties, and we record the media attention these actors get between 2016 and 2018 using a comprehensive corpus of daily news content from twelve newspapers.

We study interest groups in four European democracies: Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

We hypothesize that interest groups with stronger organizational ties to political parties are more likely to appear in the news, and that this effect is positively conditioned by parties’ media attention.

We propose that interest groups’ organizational ties to parties are an important asset and a signal to journalists for groups seeking media attention.

@ma1ken.bsky.social, Gunnar Thesen and I examine whether the strength of interest groups’ organizational ties to political parties is associated with the media attention these groups receive, focusing on newspaper coverage.

📣Publication alert! New article just published online in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: “Organizational ties to political parties and interest groups’ news coverage”👇 cup.org/4cx2WOM Ahead-of-print and Open Access! 🧵[1/12]

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📢 New book chapter 👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern (ISV) & Vibeke Wøien Hansen @vibekewoien.bsky.social 🔎 Interest Groups in Norwegian Politics: Strategies, Access, and Influence 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

📢 New book chapter 👥 Elin Haugsgjerd Allern @allernelin.bsky.social, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Kristoffer Kolltveit & Bjørn Erik Rasch 🔎 Introduction: Norway, A Stable Democracy in Flux 📗 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo (@statsvitenskap.bsky.social) for its financial support of this major book project and collective effort.

Moreover, we appreciate the hard work of the editorial and production teams at Oxford University Press (@oxfordacademic.bsky.social). We are immensely grateful for their support throughout the entire production process.