cad a22 4500 551327987 20201202060916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 181213e201812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-159583 doi 10.1111/spsr.12325 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:159583 320 ddc Wüest Bruno Selective attention and the information environment: citizens' perceptions of political problems in the 2015 swiss federal election campaign [Elektronische Daten] [Bruno Wüest] openAccess eu-repo In the course of election campaigns, voters pay only selectively attention to particular aspects of political problems. Such selective attention is necessary because the costs of becoming competent on many political problems are great. Normatively, however, such selective attention is not desirable because it lowers the chance that voters will reach well‐balanced and competent decisions. This contribution establishes the aspects of the four most salient problems from the 2015 Swiss federal election campaign: immigration, welfare, the economy and European integration. It further reveals that selective attention is higher among those who are interested in politics and who learn problem‐specific information on salient problems, and lower among those who are well‐educated, who engage in personal discussions, who use traditional media, and who learn problem‐specific information on less salient problems. Finally, it concludes that selective attention should be avoided in order to strengthen the citizens' level of information on political problems. Institute of Political Science zora political science and international relations zora Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 24(4):464-486 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159583/1/ZORA159583.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/159583/1/ZORA159583.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 100 1- Wüest Bruno ZORA 773 0- Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 24(4):464-486