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In a democratic country like Malaysia, the media plays a vital role in shaping the structure of political knowledge and encouraging political participation among new young voters. Lack of empirical study on structure of political knowledge among new young voters in Malaysia conducted even the topic of political participation readiness gain popular in political forums. The objective of this study are to analyse the level of political knowledge structure from 1) democratic information dimension, 2) election information dimension, and 3) political party information dimension among new young voters in Malaysia. This study uses a quantitative approach with a survey method on 547 respondents aged 18-26 throughout Malaysia from the North, East, West, South, and Borneo Zones. The findings reported that new young voters in Malaysia have a high level of political knowledge on democratic information and election information. However, for political party information at a moderate level. This study suggests that the SPR organize an outreach program in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Education Malaysia, and the Ministry of Higher Education in promoting voting awareness campaigns purposely to increase engagement of new young voters with government entities. Uploading photos, creating content on social media, and tagging the government entities. By using 'prompt' strategy and algorithm tools, it helps new young voters in Malaysia who are less interested in politics gain exposure to political information through government policy information and finally, shape their structure of political knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A strong argument can be made for the prime importance of information in the context of an economic recession. It is in times of crisis that information on the state of the economy is abundant and citizens have incentives to acquire it in order to sanction incumbents for mismanagement of the economy. Simultaneously, however, economic hardship strains people's cognitive resources and motivations to seek relevant information. Using a novel research design, we assess how the recent economic recession has shaped information acquisition. Our results indicate that while personal economic hardship depresses levels of information, the recession overall boosted considerably the public's knowledge of the state of the economy and, to a lesser degree, of parties' policy positions in elections. For both economic and electoral types of information, economically marginal groups caught up to the economically secure in contexts of economic hardship, thereby reducing information inequalities. We discuss the findings' implications for representative democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through a mixed method, the linear (live), social (social media) and audience participation (live-tweeting) offer during the special information program of March, 26th 2019 electoral night in La 1 of TVE and La sexta is analysed. We had the hypothesis that television consumption has changed with the competition of VoD-OTT platforms. The objective of this empirical work is to determine the multichannel information strategy carried out by the mentioned stations, and to know the response of the audience. Political events such as electoral processes keep the audience connected to traditional and social television, and generate high volumes of conversation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the effects of electoral competition on voter turnout conditional on the number of co-partisan candidates and incumbent reelection rates. Utilizing the advantages of SNTV-MMD systems such as the variations in the number of co-partisan candidates and incumbent reelection rates across districts, we conduct a data analysis of 486 districts of local councilors in Taiwan from 2005 to 2014, which are time-series cross-sectional data. We analyze the data by employing multilevel beta regression models and the results show that, when the number of co-partisan candidates or incumbent reelection rates are relatively high, strong electoral competition significantly fosters voter turnout. The results have important implications for the effects of SNTV-MMD systems on voter turnout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]