¿Qué impacto tiene la cobertura de noticias en los medios nacionales de comunicación sobre el comportamiento de los legisladores al tomar decisiones sobre asuntos de política exterior? Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la relación entre los medios de comunicación y el comportamiento legislativo en política exterior, utilizando a Paraguay como caso de estudio. We confirm this finding through qualitative data gathered from in-depth interviews. Thus, our empirical evidence contradicts the idea that there is a lack of electoral interest in foreign policy. After estimating a Tobit model, we observe a significant and positive relationship between the news coverage a law receives and the degree of polarization among parliamentarians.
We find the relationship between parliamentary polarization and public interest in a bill to be mediated by mass media. The literature on Latin American studies finds a lack of parliamentary interest in foreign affairs due to low voter attention to this subject, and therefore a low impact on reelections. We analyze the level of public debate on international affairs, measured by the frequency of news in the newspaper ABC Color in the six months before the roll-call votes on the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay. Does national media news coverage affect the behavior of legislators when deciding foreign policy matters? This article aims to disentangle the relationship between the media and legislative behavior in foreign policy, using Paraguay as a case study.
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