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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 political economy of propaganda : evidence from US newspapers

Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022

text data from local newspapers and a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that stories of sexual assaults by Black … Democratic newspapers only. …

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Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron - 2012

, circulation, and content of Republican and Democratic daily newspapers. We exploit changes over time in party control of the …

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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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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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Essays in the economics of mass media

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron - 2004

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2020

We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote...

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Watchdog or loyal servant? : political media bias in US newscasts

Bernhardt, Lea; Dewenter, Ralf; Thomas, Tobias - 2020

We investigate if four leading, electronic news gathering organizations in the US - ABC News, CBS News, FOX News, and NBC News - fulfill their role as the fourth estate in the US democracy. Our analysis, using the Political Coverage Index (PCI) introduced by Dewenter et al (2020), is based on...

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Watchdog or loyal servant? : political media bias in US newscasts

Bernhardt, Lea; Dewenter, Ralf; Thomas, Tobias - 2020

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