Additional Analyses for Rinke & Löb (tba)

The following analysis complements the findings presented in the paper Rinke & Löb (tba). Contexts of contestation: How political systems, sociocultural divides and media types shape inclusion and justification in public discourse.

Regression Models

The following table shows the numerical estimates from a mixed-effects Poisson regression model regressing the item-level count variable justification frequency on the three factors (1) type of political system, (2) socio-cultural division, and (3) media type.

Justification frequency
B SE
Political system
Mixed (vs Consensus) -.05 .03
Majoritarian (vs Consensus) .05 -.04
Societal division
Contested secularism (vs Stable secularism) -.05 .04
Media type
News website (vs Blog) .19 -.14
Printed newspaper (vs Blog) .16 -.12
N (media outlets) 99
N (news items) 1,700

Note: Cell entries are unstandardized coefficients with standard errors (SE) from a mixed-effects Poisson regression model. Reference categories for categorical independent variables given in parentheses. * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001