Publication
Title
Exploring media-covered accountability of public agencies
Author
Abstract
Although journalism and media coverage are known to induce, inform, and affect public accountability processes, little is known about media-covered accountability. This study therefore explores accountability processes of Danish and Flemish agencies as subjects of the news. Drawing on news construction literature, our quantitative content analysis of newspaper coverage ( N = 13,540) focuses on the presence of accountability processes in media coverage and the extent to which organizational characteristics (task, political salience, and size) are related to this phenomenon. Horizontal accountability forums have the highest media presence. Opinions from horizontal forums, vertical forums, and citizens appear less frequently for service-providing organizations.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Administration and society. - Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Publication
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : 2022
ISSN
0095-3997
DOI
10.1177/00953997211036353
Volume/pages
54 :4 (2022) , p. 575-604
ISI
000680143500001
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UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
Reputation and Structural Reforms of Public Organizations: Explaining Temporal Dynamics.
Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
Record
Identifier
Creation 16.08.2021
Last edited 02.10.2024
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