Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. Using survey data collected immediately after Koizumi's 2005 … landslide electoral victory, this study empirically assesses the influence of television (TV) and newspapers on individuals … newspapers only slightly correlates with men's support for Koizumi.. Our study's results suggest that compared to a political …

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 …

impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to … evidence 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 …

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

access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic. Focusing on federal and state election outcomes in the post …

accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was … suppressed-Canadians received either public or private television content, but never both. While public television provided … national-level informational content, private television content was distinctly local and more politically relevant to voters …

television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly …