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Media's role in the making of a democrat : evidence from East Germany

Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2019

access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic. Focusing on federal and state election outcomes in the post …

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From couch to poll : media content and the value of local information

Bühler, Mathias; Dickens, Andrew - 2024

accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was … suppressed-Canadians received either public or private television content, but never both. While public television provided … national-level informational content, private television content was distinctly local and more politically relevant to voters …

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Transparency in parliamentary voting

Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2015

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While publicly observable at the time of the vote,...

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Immigrant narratives

Gehring, Kai; Adema, Joop; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

themes and assign a sentiment to each of these. Our narrative dataset covers 107,428 newspaper articles from 70 German … newspapers over the 2000 to 2019 period. Using 16 human coders to evaluate our method, we find that it clearly outperforms simple …

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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals … in some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989 …. We conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus …

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Political cycles of media repression

Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2025

contrast, the reigns are loosened during off-election periods to allow the media’s credibility to be rebuilt. This dynamic …

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Electoral control when policies are for sale

Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2009

This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...

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A banana republic? : trust in electoral institutions in Western democracies : evidence from a presidential election in Austria

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016

democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in …

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Disentangling demand and supply of media bias : the case of newspaper homepages

Tin Cheuk Leung; Strumpf, Koleman S. - 2024

In this study, we propose a novel approach to detect supply-side media bias, independent of external factors like ownership or editors' ideological leanings. Analyzing over 100,000 articles from The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), complemented by data from 22 million...

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Media consolidation

Martin, Gregory J.; Mastrorocco, Nicola; McCrain, Joshua; … - 2024

effects of ownership by the three largest television conglomerates on local news advertising, content, and viewership …

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