This study poses the question of how public information contributes to citizen satisfaction or dissatisfaction with government policies. Public information efforts, “irrespective of their importance for the public’s welfare, do not make it onto the radar screens of social science researchers”, according to a recent review of Graber (Graber/Smith 2005: 482, 497). Remarkably enough, satisfaction with government policies is nevertheless believed to be one of the key determinants not only of electoral choices but also of public participation (Mueller 2003).
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Kleinnijenhuis, J., van Hoof, A.M.J. (2009). Media Coverage of Government Policies and Citizen Satisfaction with Information Provision and Policy Results. In: Marcinkowski, F., Pfetsch, B. (eds) Politik in der Mediendemokratie. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91728-3_14
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