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

election areas. To identify causal effects, we take advantage of large nonlinearities in the function which assigns council … votes in the next election after gaining a seat, while the anti-immigrant party experiences no such incumbency advantage … negotiated refugee quotas, and increases negative newspaper coverage of the anti-immigrant party at the local level. Our finding …

the capital affects different accountability mechanisms over state politics: newspaper coverage, voter knowledge and …

We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the … between the endorsement policy of newspapers, and the differential coverage of bad/good economic news as a function of the … president's political affiliation. We find evidence that newspapers with pro-Democratic endorsement pattern systematically give …

exploit the rapid growth of Hispanic communities in the United States to test whether the presence of local television news …-Hispanic voter turnout, in markets where local Spanish-language television news became available. Thus, the tradeoff between …

We analyze the coverage of U.S. political scandals by U.S. newspapers during the past decade. Using automatic keyword …-based searches we collected data on 35 scandals and approximately 200 newspapers. We nd that Democratic-leaning newspapers -- i … involving Republican politicians than scandals involving Democratic politicians, while Republican-leaning newspapers tend to do …

that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in …