The Impact of Media Systems on the Making of Informed Election Outcomes Marina Popescu University of Essex & Median Research Centre, Bucharest <mpope@essex.ac.uk> Gábor Tóka Central European University, Budapest & University of Oxford <gabor.toka@politics.ox.ac.uk> Paper prepared for presentation at the 2007 General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research at Pisa, 6-8 September 2007.