Election campaign and media exposure: explaining objective vs subjective political knowledge among first-time voters

Figures & data

Figure 1. The distribution of the two types of knowledge among the respondents (N = 664).

Figure 2. The effects on objective and subjective knowledge.

Note: The regression coefficients are presented in Appendix 2.

Table

	Mean	Std. dev.	Min.	Max.	N
Objective knowledge	3.96	1.09	0	5	664
Subjective knowledge	3.68	0.78	1	5	664
Political interest	3.83	0.91	1	5	664
Importance of elections	3.43	0.69	1	4	662
Follow campaign	3.95	0.92	1	5	661
TV use	2.07	1.44	0	4	657
Newspaper use	1.98	1.51	0	4	644
Social media use	2.73	1.20	0	4	654
Left-right placement	6.48	2.41	0	10	601
Political participation	1.63	0.81	1	5	664

Table

	Objective knowledge		Subjective knowledge
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
Political interest	1.51**	1.42**	3.51**	3.60**
Importance of elections	0.75*	0.77*	0.60**	0.60**
Follow campaign	1.24*	1.21*	2.84**	2.68**
TV use	0.88*	0.88*	1.03	1.01
Newspaper use	1.22**	1.23**	1.17*	1.16*
Social media use	1.21**	1.19*	1.24**	1.22*
Left-right placement		1.05		1.10*
Political participation		1.17		1.15
N	637	580	637	580
Pseudo R^2	0.05	0.05	0.26	0.26
Log likelihood	−803.59	−708.70	−524.55	−478.60

Notes: Regression coefficients are odds-ratios; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05.