Investigating media coverage of the Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick electoral reform initiatives

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dc.contributor.authorDowson, Janice
dc.contributor.supervisorPilon, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-29T21:05:18Z
dc.date.available2011-04-29T21:05:18Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-04-29
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn 2005 Prince Edward Island’s plebiscite on replacing the single member plurality (SMP) voting system with a mixed member proportional (MMP) voting system was defeated. In New Brunswick a similar referendum, recommended by the Commission on Legislative Democracy in 2004, was never held. This thesis investigates media coverage of these recent electoral reform initiatives in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. Specifically, it examines local newspaper coverage of each province’s electoral reform initiatives and analyses the findings to determine if the newspapers demonstrated any bias for or against the implementation of a new voting system. It concludes that in each province the local newspaper media demonstrated a pro-electoral reform position, though there was considerable variation between the newspapers with respect to the breadth of coverage, the amount of bias and how that bias was articulated to readers.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3271
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectMixed Member Proportionalen_US
dc.subjectMMPen_US
dc.subjectProportional Representationen_US
dc.subjectPRen_US
dc.subjectSingle member pluralityen_US
dc.subjectSMPen_US
dc.subjectnewspaper contenten_US
dc.titleInvestigating media coverage of the Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick electoral reform initiativesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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