Huber Lena Maria, Bodlos Anita, Graf Elisabeth, Meyer Thomas M
University of Vienna, Austria.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Party Politics. 2022 Mar;28(2):365-376. doi: 10.1177/1354068820982555. Epub 2020 Dec 29.
While a rich literature addresses legislative agenda-setting in multiparty democracies, relatively little is known how members of parliament disseminate the legislative agenda beyond the parliamentary floor. Drawing on content analyses of 110 legislative debates and 5,847 press releases from Austrian MPs (2013-2017), we test whether legislators are more likely to send press releases on issues that are salient to their party () and to other parties in the party system (). MPs should also communicate more on issues that fall within their area of expertise () and when they have given a speech on that issue during the legislative debate (). While we find empirical support for all these expectations, communication of the legislative agenda largely rests on each parties' issue specialists and their speakers in plenary debates. Importantly, there is no significant discrepancy overall between the actual parliamentary issue agenda and the agenda communicated by party MPs.
虽然有丰富的文献探讨多党民主制下的立法议程设定，但对于议员如何在议会之外传播立法议程，人们了解得相对较少。基于对奥地利议员在2013 - 2017年期间的110场立法辩论和5847份新闻稿的内容分析，我们检验议员是否更有可能就对其所在政党（）以及政党体系中的其他政党（）而言突出的问题发布新闻稿。议员还应该就属于其专业领域（）的问题，以及当他们在立法辩论中就该问题发表过演讲时（），进行更多的沟通。虽然我们为所有这些预期找到了实证支持，但立法议程的传播在很大程度上依赖于各政党的问题专家及其在全会辩论中的发言人。重要的是，实际的议会问题议程与政党议员所传播的议程之间总体上没有显著差异。
