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Incumbency Coverage

Incumbency Coverage is a journalistic reporting paradigm within election coverage that systematically prioritizes the visibility, policy narratives, and electoral legitimacy of incumbent political figures over challengers, thereby reinforcing their institutional advantage through asymmetric media exposure.

17

Publications

810

Citations

25

Authors

14

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

3

Parents

Publications

17

The Incumbent in the Living Room: The Rise of Television and the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. House Elections

Markus Prior · The Journal of Politics · 2006 · 193 citations

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Incumbency Bonus in Election News Coverage Explained: The Logics of Political Power and the Media Market

David Nicolas Hopmann, Claes H. de Vreese · Journal of Communication · 2011 · 136 citations

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Television and the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections

Stephen Ansolabehere, Erik Snowberg, James M. Snyder · Legislative Studies Quarterly · 2006 · 116 citations

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The Incumbency Bonus Revisited: Causes and Consequences of Media Dominance

Christoffer Green‐Pedersen, Peter Bjerre Mortensen, Gunnar Thesen · British Journal of Political Science · 2015 · 94 citations · Full text

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Local News Coverage and the Incumbency Advantage in the U.S. House

Brian Schaffner · Legislative Studies Quarterly · 2006 · 49 citations

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Authors

25

  1. JM
    James M. Snyder

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 139 citations

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  2. SA
    Stephen Ansolabehere

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 139 citations

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  3. ES
    Erik Snowberg

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 139 citations

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  4. BS
    Brian Schaffner

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    1 publications · 49 citations

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  5. KF
    Kim Fridkin Kahn

    Arizona State University, United States

    1 publications · 40 citations

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Institutions

14

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    116 citations

  3. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  5. Aarhus University

    Aarhus, Denmark

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    282 citations

  6. University of Notre Dame

    Notre Dame, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  7. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    193 citations

  8. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    136 citations

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Venues

  1. Legislative Studies Quarterly

    4 publications · 207 citations

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  2. Newspaper Research Journal

    NRJ · 2 publications · 20 citations

    2

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  3. The Journal of Politics

    JP · 2 publications · 206 citations

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  4. Frontiers in Physics

    1 publications · 12 citations

    1

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  5. Political Research Quarterly

    PRQ · 1 publications · 40 citations

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