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The Belgian agenda-setting project collected issue attention data from different institutions and actors over a period of more than ten years.
Principal Investigator: Stefaan Walgrave
Location: Department of Political Science, Sint-Jacobstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp
Email: stefaan.walgrave@uantwerpen.be
Downloadable Data Series: 7
Time Span: 1977-2022
Total Observations: 413,321
Funding for the Belgian agenda-setting project came from the European Science Foundation (grant number: 07-ECRP-008), from the Flemish National Science Foundation (grant number: G.0117.11N) the Belgian Federal Science Policy (grant number: IUAP P7/46), and the TOP BOF University of Antwerp Grant (grant number FFB210426).
In a recently published article, Julie Sevenans and Rens Vliegenthart investigate the role of conflict framing as a moderator of the political agenda-setting effect. Conflict is at the heart of politics: political debate arises from political actors taking opposing positions. It is hypothesized that conflict framing in media coverage enhances the relevance of the news for politicians, who in turn react more to this news in parliament. The expectations are tested...
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