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The political legacy of entertainment TV

Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - 2015

We investigate the political impact of entertainment television in Italy over the past thirty years by exploiting the …

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Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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The economics of television and online video markets

Crawford, Gregory S. - 2015

Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that … determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both … number of distinct themes emerge, including the growing importance of the pay-television sector, the role played by content …

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Censorship in democracy

Caesmann, Marcel; Goldzycher, Janis; Grigoletto, Matteo; … - 2024

The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is a growing concern in many democracies. Can censorship be an effective tool to curb the spread of such slanted narratives? In this paper, we study the European Union's ban on...

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Electoral cycle bias in the media coverage of corruption news

Le Moglie, Marco; Turati, Gilberto - 2018

corruption scandals in the Italian Regional Health Systems by two important national newspapers having opposite ideology, La …

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Information gatekeeping and media bias

Eraslan, Hülya; Özertürk, Saltuk - 2018

access improves her re-election probability only if coverage is sufficiently credible in the eyes of the public. Information …

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Election campaigns, agenda setting and electoral outcomes

Holler, Manfred; Skott, Peter - 2004

Framing effects and bounded rationality imply that election campaigns may be an important determinant of election …

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BJPs Demographic Dividend in the 2014 General Elections: An Empirical Analysis

Basu, Deepankar; Misra, Kartik - 2014

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the 2014 General Elections in India and emerged as a single party with absolute majority, a result not witnessed since 1984. Not only did it win a majority of seats, it also managed to increase its vote share in almost all states between 2009 and 2014....

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Potterian economics

Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

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A model of social duties

Ellingsen, Tore; Mohlin, Erik - 2022

We develop a formal model of social duties. Duties to respect entitlements (duties of justice) differ from duties to promote well-being (duties of charity). A situationspecific version of our model takes entitlements as primitives. A fully portable version derives entitlements from situational...

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