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This paper attempts to describe and to explain political news coverage during the 1986 Japanese election campaign in six major newspapers; it aims also to provide an examination of the editorial content pattern of the Japanese papers in an election time. The findings show that political news coverage was dominated by "Horserace" related items rather than "Issues" or "Campaign Events" stories, and that most of the papers tended to over-represent the dominant Liberal Democratic Party (L.P.D.) and to under-represent the opposition parties; the L.D.P. related news items were generally larger and included more pictures, which were also larger., Asien, Nr. 27 (1988): ASIEN (April)

The 2010 elections in the United Kingdom provided voters with numerous and diverse opportunities to reason strategically. The Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems)-traditionally finishing a distant third in terms of seats in Parliament-vied with labour to be the principal competition to the Conservatives, who failed to win a majority of seats, creating a rare case of what the British call a hung parliament. These conditions varied across constituencies at the district level, and we exploit this variation to study the incidence of "tactical" voting. But the national outcome also presented strategic considerations for voters, and the conditions varied to some extent over the course of the campaign, giving voters interviewed at different times different sets of national considerations for tactical voting. This presents us with the opportunity to investigate how both local and national considerations may shape strategic reasoning among voters and relate to each other and to the final choices of voters on Election Day.