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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Drago, Francesco - 2013

This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation … covering the presence of local news by different types of newspapers (i.e., local and national) for all cities above 15 …,000 inhabitants in the period 1993-2010. The identification strategy exploits discrete changes in the number of newspapers supplying …

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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant

Gans, Joshua - 2011

have independent raters separately code front-page election stories and headlines. Third, we tabulate the number of … electoral endorsements that newspapers give to each side of politics in federal elections. Overall, we find that the Australian …

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The Political Economy of Propaganda : Evidence from Us Newspapers

Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022

text data from local newspapers and a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that stories of sexual assaults by Black … Democratic newspapers only …

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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Balles, Patrick - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era : Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy

Poy, Samuele - 2016

This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), thus generating a source...

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When Criminality Begets Crime : The Role of Elected Politicians in India

Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022

This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...

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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2022

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates. Using hand-collected data on 116,185 candidates in four consecutive local council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide...

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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes : The Czech Case

Jurajda, Stepan - 2014

on higher candidate salience in small municipalities. We also quantify the election advantage of a slate being randomly …

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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …

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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2014

We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...

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