Media Attention and Political Sense of Urgency in the Netherlands

This paper presents first results of a new dataset on news press releases in the Netherlands and relates these to the development of political attention. The analysis focuses on main themes that come and go on the media agenda and consders the extent to whcih these themes have a domestic or rather an international (European) origin. Further, the paper analyses the 'stickiness' or rather then volatility of political attention to these main themes once they entered the media agenda.