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The effect of entertainment in newspaper and television news coverage

Greiner, Tanja - 2010

In this paper, we analyze the equilibrium amount of entertainment in news coverage of newspapers and television … content, as the television channel gains market shares at the expense of the newspaper. … both media outlets to incorporate more entertaining elements in news coverage. The introduction of commercial television …

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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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Voting Alone? The Political and Cultural Consequences of Commercial TV

Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2013

We investigate the long-term impact of early exposure to Berlusconi’s commercial TV network, Mediaset, on voting behavior and civic engagement in Italy. To do so, we exploit differences in Mediaset signal reception across Italian municipalities due to the network’s staggered introduction...

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Voting Alone? The Political and Cultural Consequences of Commercial TV

Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2013

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Media Competition and Electoral Politics

Piolatto, Amedeo; Schütt, Florian - 2014

We build a framework linking competition in the media market to political participation. Media outlets report on the ability of candidates running for office and compete for audience through their choice of slant. Citizens consume news only if the expected utility of being informed about...

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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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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2013

government efficiency. Exploiting discrete changes in the number of newspapers, we show that newspaper entry increases turnout in … 1993-2010 to evaluate the effects of newspaper entry and exit on electoral participation, political selection, and … to the first newspaper entry …

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Media Competition, Information Provision and Political Participation : Evidence from French Local Newspapers and Elections, 1944-2014

Cagé, Julia - 2017

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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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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