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Groot, A.M. (2015)

The role of media in the agenda setting process of a security issue: the influence of media salience on the state response regarding European foreign fighters

Master thesis | Political Science (MSc)

This thesis focuses on the influence that media salience has on the state response towards foreign fighters. The agenda-setting function of the media is investigated in two case studies, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The findings in this thesis indicate that often media salience and the state response co-vary, but that after peaks in media salience not always a stronger state response occurs and that not all increases in the state response occur after increased media salience.

Media salience

Security issue

Agenda setting

Author

Groot, A.M.

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Political Science

Supervisors

Spirova, M.S.
Tromble, R.K.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en