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The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469631
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - 2023
impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to … 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 newspapers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377220
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Meet the press: How voters and politicians respond to newspaper entry and exit
Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291409
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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959747
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Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984505
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Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy
Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525079
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The Social Contract with Endogenous Sentiments
Cervellati, Matteo; Esteban, Joan; Kranich, Laurence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual selfesteem and relative esteem for others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their productivities, and their behaviour and political views are influenced by moral standards concerning work....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703141
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Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict
Bharati, Tushar; Jetter, Michael; Malik, Muhammad Nauman - 2022
these predictions. Radio and television penetration and usage are associated with diminished levels of civil conflict and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351850
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Media exposure and internal migration: Evidence from Indonesia
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential … introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280685
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Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential … introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325431