Replication studies are very rare in political science research. Using the Seymour-Ure´s (1974) concept of political parallelism and extensions (Blumler/Gurevitch 1995; Hallin/Mancini 2004, 2012), I examine one of the key concepts in the relationship between the media and politics in modern societies. Based on Van Kempen’s research design (2006, 2007) the analysis uses data from 2004 and 2009 European Election Surveys (EES) in answering the research question: Has the congruence between voter preferences and media usages a positive effect and increases the level of voter turnout over time? Overall I argue that the results of the OSL analysis can be used as a contextual variable and explanatory factor not only of the national electoral participation, but has also a positive effect on the political participation in general. Furthermore, this is interesting to internal and external media pluralism which affects the political knowledge and institutional trust on individual level.
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