newspaper endorsements. We first develop a simple econometric model in which voters choose candidates under uncertainty and rely … on endorsements from better informed sources. Newspapers are potentially biased in favor of one of the candidates and … the Democratic candidate from left-leaning newspapers are less influential than are endorsements from neutral or right …

reelection. This generates a skew distribution of signals leading to an incumbency advantage in the probability of election … politicians, thus increasing the separation of signals and improving the selection function of an election. This precommitment has …

after, the election. Changes in vote choice are concomitant to shifts in salient issues and beliefs about candidates, while …

, circulation, prices, number of pages, and content of Republican and Democratic daily newspapers. We exploit changes over time in …

We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political … events and allows for the possibility of confounding trends. We find that newspapers have a robust positive effect on … political participation, with one additional newspaper increasing both presidential and congressional turnout by approximately 0 …

daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant … newspapers - even underdogs such as the Post, which had a circulation of just 27,000 when it closed - can have a substantial and …