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What Dutch Parliamentary Journalists Know about Politics
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political science ; official journal of the Dutch Political Science Association (Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek), Band 35, Heft 2, S. 196-227
ISSN: 0001-6810
In spring 1999, telephone interviews were carried out with Dutch parliamentary journalists to research their political knowledge. The response rate was 81%. This paper reports analyses of their responses to questions in five domains: public law, parliamentary history & political ideology, European integration, decolonization, & core statistics. Results for each of the 43 questions are given in the appendix. Fifteen questions formed a Mokken scale, which was used to compare the political knowledge of different groups of journalists. Male journalists were found to have more political knowledge than female journalists. This gender gap, which is consistent with that found in earlier studies of political knowledge, could not be explained away by reference to age or experience, education, being a generalist or a specialist, political preference, or journalistic medium. Results for these variables are given. The paper briefly characterizes the relationship between political knowledge & political insight, & discusses the difficulty of giving a normative description of what journalists ought to know. 4 Tables, 1 Appendix, 44 References. Adapted from the source document.