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 …

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

Can television have a mitigating e.ect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals in … some areas of East Germany - due to their geographic location - could not receive West German television until 1989. We … conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus have …

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals … in some areas of East Germany – due to their geographic location – could not receive West German television until 1989 …. We conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus …

Can television have a mitigating e.ect on xenophobia? To examine this question, we exploit the fact that individuals in … some areas of East Germany . due to their geographic location . could not receive West German television until 1989. We … conjecture that individuals who received West German television were exposed more frequently to foreigners and thus have …

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 …

The television channel TV3 has played a controversial role in the Catalan politics since its creation in the early …s. We find that the introduction of TV3 increased voter turnout in the 1984 Catalan parliamentary election, but it did …

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 …

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