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I senaste numret av Journal of Communication analyserar Jesper Strömbäck och Spiro Kiousis mediernas dagordningsmakt i samband med riksdagsvalet 2006. Artikeln handlar, enligt abstract, om följande: 

The purpose of this study was to compare the predictive power of overall political news consumption and media-specific news consumption, on perceived issue salience across different media channels and media types in the context of the 2006 Swedish parliamentary election. Findings suggest that overall consumption of political news is significantly more important than consumption of specific media outlets in predicting changes in issue salience. Although the study demonstrates that the Swedish news media collectively can exert considerable agenda-setting influence over their audiences, it could, however, not find any consistent evidence of differences related to media channels or media types. The reasons for and implications of the results are discussed.