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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party : A Reconsideration

Guinnane, Timothy; Hoffman, Philip - 2022

The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....

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Can television reduce xenophobia? The case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

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 …

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Can Television Reduce Xenophobia? The Case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

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 …

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Can television reduce xenophobia? The case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

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 …

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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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Television and electoral results in Catalonia

Durán, Iván M. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 4, pp. 423-456

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 …

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Media and Polarization

Campante, Filipe R.; Hojman, Daniel - 2010

This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how media environments, characterized by their levels of accessibility and variety of content, interact with citizens' ideological views and attitudes and political motivation. We...

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Chapter 17. Media Capture : Empirical Evidence

Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria - 2015

This chapter overviews the empirical literature on the determinants and the consequences of media capture, i.e., the situation in which governments or other interest groups try to control the content of media outlets. We start by examining the evidence on the effect of media capture on the...

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Chapter 16. Media Capture and Media Power

Prat, Andrea - 2015

This chapter studies situations where media sources deliberately deviate from truthful reporting in order to manipulate electoral outcomes. Media capture occurs when the government actively attempts to influence the media industry. We instead speak of media power when news organizations engage...

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Chapter 13. Media Coverage and Political Accountability : Theory and Evidence

Strömberg, David - 2015

This chapter investigates how media coverage filters information and how this affects political accountability and policy. I first present a baseline model of media coverage and its effect on political accountability. The model is used to discuss the welfare consequences of private provision of...

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