Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020
‘Ethnic’ media have an important democratic role to play in informing immigrant voters about their choices at election time. Yet, ethnic media typically receive comparatively little attention in studies of electoral news coverage and factors influencing that coverage. Drawing on the case of New Zeal...
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| description | ‘Ethnic’ media have an important democratic role to play in informing immigrant voters about their choices at election time. Yet, ethnic media typically receive comparatively little attention in studies of electoral news coverage and factors influencing that coverage. Drawing on the case of New Zealand Chinese language media, this article advances understanding of how ethnic media carry out the democratic role of informing migrant voters during elections. Examining data across five election periods, we identify longitudinal trends in election coverage and consider two explanations for those trends: incumbency and the presence of ethnically Chinese candidates. We find a strong relationship between incumbency and the amount of coverage received by leaders and other candidates of major political parties, although the incumbency benefit is stronger for the centre-right than for the centre-left. The quantity and tone of coverage of leaders and candidates is, however, not systematically related to the number of co-ethnic candidates each party stands. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-860251b54d274339a998c7f08340ac432025-01-28T01:49:26ZengTaylor & Francis GroupKōtuitui1177-083X2025-01-0112010.1080/1177083X.2025.2455185Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020Kate McMillan0Fiona Barker1Caleb Hoyle2Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandTe Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandIndependent Scholar‘Ethnic’ media have an important democratic role to play in informing immigrant voters about their choices at election time. Yet, ethnic media typically receive comparatively little attention in studies of electoral news coverage and factors influencing that coverage. Drawing on the case of New Zealand Chinese language media, this article advances understanding of how ethnic media carry out the democratic role of informing migrant voters during elections. Examining data across five election periods, we identify longitudinal trends in election coverage and consider two explanations for those trends: incumbency and the presence of ethnically Chinese candidates. We find a strong relationship between incumbency and the amount of coverage received by leaders and other candidates of major political parties, although the incumbency benefit is stronger for the centre-right than for the centre-left. The quantity and tone of coverage of leaders and candidates is, however, not systematically related to the number of co-ethnic candidates each party stands.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/1177083X.2025.2455185Ethnic mediaelection coverageimmigrant votersdemocracyChineseNew Zealand |
| spellingShingle | Kate McMillan Fiona Barker Caleb Hoyle Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 Kōtuitui Ethnic media election coverage immigrant voters democracy Chinese New Zealand |
| title | Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 |
| title_full | Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 |
| title_fullStr | Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 |
| title_short | Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 |
| title_sort | informing immigrant voters chinese language media in new zealand election campaigns 2008 2020 |
| topic | Ethnic media election coverage immigrant voters democracy Chinese New Zealand |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/1177083X.2025.2455185 |
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