Abstract

MUNIZ, Carlos  and  CORDUNEANU, Victoria Isabela. Media dependency and evaluation of Mexican governmental administration of pandemic. Convergencia [online]. 2021, vol.28, e16083.  Epub Feb 21, 2022. ISSN 2448-5799.  https://doi.org/10.29101/crcs.v28i0.16083.

During a crisis context such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the population's dependence on the media system to seek information and guidance increases, which can generate and/or increase political attitudes, such as support for the governmental administration of the crisis. In particular, the article seeks to determine if media dependence influenced the citizen evaluation of the management of the president and the subsecretary of Health during the pandemic in Mexico and if the level of political partisanship moderated this effect. A survey with a representative sample at national level (N = 1211) was carried out. Findings allow observing a moderating effect of partisanship on the relationship between dependency and the evaluation of pandemic administration, especially in the case of the subsecretary of Health. This suggests that the differentiated media coverage of both political actors contributed to modifying the citizen evaluation, especially among nonpartisans.

Keywords : media system dependency; governmental administration evaluation; partisanship; pandemic.

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