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build a new county-level panel dataset of local newspaper presence, newspapers' newsrooms, costs and revenues and political … conditions under which an increase in the number of newspapers can decrease both the quantity and quality of news provided. I … turnout in France, from 1944 to 2014. I estimate the effect of newspaper entry by comparing counties that experience entry to …
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We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen. Instrumenting rally attendance with rainfall while factoring in that some municipalities never...
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practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points … conclude that party coordination and voters rallying candidates who won or gained visibility in an election both contribute to …
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Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants …
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This paper proposes an alternative reading of the politics of the 2017 French presidential election, using an unstudied … election process and outcome. The principal approach for understanding the political context has for many decades been a …
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Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants …
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-right) candidates during the French 2017 presidential election. Locally, the impact on voting is substantial. Back … outcome of the election at the national level. …
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We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, the cradle of top French politicians. Quasi-random assignments of students into the same short-term integration groups before their scholar curriculum reduce political...
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We study how friendship shapes students' political opinions in a natural experiment. We use the indicator whether two students were exogenously assigned to a short-term \integration group", unrelated to scholar activities and dissolved before the school year, as instrumental variable for their...
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We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, the cradle of top French politicians. We exploit arbitrary assignments of students into short-term integration groups before their scholar cursus, and use the pairwise...
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