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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to … evidence that newspapers facilitated the dissemination of national news to local areas. In addition, text analysis on more than … a hundred small-town weekly newspapers from the 1840s shows that the improved access to news from Washington led …

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The impact of the media on voters' attitude toward Junichiro Koizumi and his policy

Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - In: Japan and the world economy : international journal of … 34/35 (2015), pp. 24-32

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Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies

Agranov, Marina; Eilat, Ran; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is biased toward the elites, but might still prefer the biased...

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Chapter 15. Empirical Studies of Media Bias

Puglisi, Riccardo; Snyder, James M. - 2015

In this chapter we survey the empirical literature on media bias, with a focus on partisan and ideological biases. First, we discuss the methods used to measure the relative positions of media outlets. We divide bias into two categories, explicit and implicit bias. We group existing measures of...

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Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

not run in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a relatively representative electoral constituency, in the general election of July 23 …

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The tuesday advantage of politicians endorsed by American newspapers

Leon, Fernanda Leite Lopez de - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 13 (2013) 2, pp. 865-886

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Chapter 17. Media Capture : Empirical Evidence

Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria - 2015

This chapter overviews the empirical literature on the determinants and the consequences of media capture, i.e., the situation in which governments or other interest groups try to control the content of media outlets. We start by examining the evidence on the effect of media capture on the...

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Chapter 16. Media Capture and Media Power

Prat, Andrea - 2015

This chapter studies situations where media sources deliberately deviate from truthful reporting in order to manipulate electoral outcomes. Media capture occurs when the government actively attempts to influence the media industry. We instead speak of media power when news organizations engage...

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Chapter 13. Media Coverage and Political Accountability : Theory and Evidence

Strömberg, David - 2015

This chapter investigates how media coverage filters information and how this affects political accountability and policy. I first present a baseline model of media coverage and its effect on political accountability. The model is used to discuss the welfare consequences of private provision of...

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Markets: Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?

Edelman, Benjamin - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 23 (2009) 1, pp. 209-20

This paper studies the adult online entertainment industry, particularly the consumption side of the market. In particular, it focuses on the demographics and consumption patterns of those who subscribe to adult entertainment websites. On the surface, this business would seem to face a number of...

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