dc.contributor.author |
Khraiche, Dana Louis, |
dc.date.accessioned |
2017-12-11T16:30:53Z |
dc.date.available |
2017-12-11T16:30:53Z |
dc.date.issued |
2017 |
dc.date.submitted |
2017 |
dc.identifier.other |
b19141610 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/20992 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of Political Science and Public Administration, 2017. T:6551 |
dc.description |
Advisor : Hiba Khodr, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science and Public Administration ; Members of Committee : Nasser Yassin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy Department ; Carmen Geha, PhD, Assistant Professor, Political Studies and Public Administration. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-54) |
dc.description.abstract |
What is the dynamic that governs the relationship between Lebanese media and politicians? A variety of studies have established that the media – depending on the type – can influence the agenda of policymakers; in other words, there is a positive correlation, indicating that the media can lead policies on certain issues and sometimes influence politicians to take an action. This study attempts to explore the agenda-setting power of the media on policy agenda in Lebanon in the context of the domestic violence law. This study assumes that the media – by extensively publishing news about domestic violence lead politicians to make a demanded change and vote in favour of the law, despite the controversy surrounding the draft bill. To test this hypothesis, the study borrows from previous studies on agenda-setting in public policy and collects data from two local newspapers including a trusted news source as well as data about public policy related to domestic violence. This study codes and quantifies the data and runs a regression to test whether there was a correlation. Results from the regressions compliment research on media agenda setting primarily theories that assume the media leads political behaviour especially prestigious newspapers on certain issues. The regression result indicates a significance and positive correlation between political activity and one of the newspapers under study. When that particular media publishes a story, it increases the probability of a political action taking place. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (x, 54 leaves) |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
dc.subject.classification |
T:006551 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Family violence -- Law and legislation -- Lebanon. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Marital violence -- Lebanon. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Mass media -- Lebanon. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Women -- Violence against -- Lebanon. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Public policy (Law) -- Lebanon. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Regression analysis. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Lebanon -- Social policy. |
dc.title |
Media’s agenda-setting power in Lebanon : the case of the domestic violence law - |
dc.title.alternative |
The case of the domestic violence law |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. |
dc.contributor.department |
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut. |