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Does fleet street shape politics? : Estimating the effect of newspaper coverage about globalization on the support for unemployment insurance

Protte, Benjamin - 2012

In this paper, I quantify the role of media in the formation of support for unemployment insurance. Theory suggests … that individuals who feel threatened by globalization demand compensatory policies. Using a novel method of quantitative … text analysis, I derive measures on the stance to globalization for all major British newspapers between 2001 and 2005 …

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Does Fleet Street shape politics? Estimating the Effect of Newspaper Coverage about Globalization on the Support for Unemployment Insurance

Protte, Benjamin - Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim - 2012

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Gobalisation and the future of the welfare state

Chen, Yu-Fu; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis; Molana, Hassan - 2014

The conventional wisdom is that increasing globalisation requires a reduction in the provision of the welfare state among industrialised countries as the distortions resulting from this type of expenditure undermine international competitiveness and the ability of countries to attract and/or...

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Globalisation, European Integration and Social Protection – Patterns of Change or Continuity?

van Vliet, Olaf - 2009

The adoption of a new instrument of governance in the EU - the open-method-of-coordination - has renewed the notion of convergence/divergence across EU member states. This paper examines the role of European integration in shaping and changing social welfare systems and investigates whether...

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Being the New York Times: the political behaviour of a newspaper

Puglisi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controlling for the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights, health...

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BEING THE NEW YORK TIMES: THEPOLITICAL BEHAVIOUR OF A NEWSPAPER

Puglisi, Riccardo - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2006

I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controllingfor the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidentialcampaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by theDemocratic party (civil rights, health care,...

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Censorship in democracy

Caesmann, Marcel; Goldzycher, Janis; Grigoletto, Matteo; … - 2024

The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is …

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Role of media in curbing corruption: the case of Uganda under President Yoweri K. Museveni during the “no-party” system

Nogara, Monica - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2009

Free, independent and hard-hitting media can play an important role in curbing corruption. Media in Uganda has enjoyed … considerable freedom in this regard since Museveni came to power in 1986. The evolving power structure and a changing media … landscape, however, have presented both challenges and opportunities for media’s watchdog role on corruption. This paper will …

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Global taxation and national welfare states

Jha, Priyaranjan; Mukherjee, Rahul - 2023

This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the … size and factor abundance. It then draws on existing empirical evidence to outline the effects of globalization on capital …

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Public and private welfare state institutions : a formal theory of American exceptionalism

Thomsson, Kaj - 2010

I construct a model of public policy development, and use the model to explain why the United States has a comparatively small public sector, but instead a large "private welfare state" with employment-based benefits. The key factors are politically organized firms and labor unions. These...

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