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Superstars in politics : the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi

Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014 - Preprint

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 …

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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

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 …

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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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 …

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The impact of the media on voters' attitude toward Junichiro Koizumi and his policy

Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - In: Japan and the world economy : international journal of … 34/35 (2015), pp. 24-32

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The political economy of attention and electoral accountability

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024

In this survey, we investigate the general mechanisms underlying the political economy of attention and review their empirical relevance, in particular for electoral accountability. The focus is on exogenous or stimulus-driven attention that political actors try to win or divert when pursuing...

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Transparency in parliamentary voting

Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2015

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While publicly observable at the time of the vote,...

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Transparency in Parliamentary Voting

Benesch, Christine - 2016

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Competing for Attention - The Effect of Talk Radio on Elections and Political Polarization in the US

Amarasinghe, Ashani; Raschky, Paul A. - 2022

This paper studies the effects of talk radio, specifically the Rush Limbaugh Show, on electoral outcomes and attitude polarization in the U.S. We propose a novel identification strategy that considers the radio space in each county as a market where multiple stations are competing for listeners'...

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Internet Access and Electoral Participation in Colombia : Voter Apathy at the Polls

Perilla, Sergio - 2021

right before the presidential election, with those that received it afterwards. I find that internet access reduced …

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The impact of Citizens United : how the removal of independent expenditure bans shaped U.S. gubernatorial elections

Balles, Patrick - 2024

. Negative campaigning also intensified, with a 5.5 percentage point rise in the share of attack ads. Survey and election data …

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