Charting Dutch Democracy: Opinion Polls, Broadcasters and Electoral Culture in the Netherlands, 1965-1990

This article was first published as online first on the website of BMGN - LCHR on 16 March 2022. This second version published in BMGN 137:3 has not been changed or revised, apart from the author's bio. This article unravels the appropriation of electoral opinion polls by Dutch public broadcasters and their deployment in radio and television formats from the 1960s until the 1980s. Rather than engaging with the mediatisation narrative that communication and media scholars use to grasp the media’s use of opinion polls, this article historicises the developments that have led to opinion polls bec... Mehr ...