field experiment that we conducted during the 2013 Moscow mayoral election, we published a newspaper criticizing the …Modern autocracies today hold elections but employ a number of tactics to control election outcomes. In response to … month prior to the election date. We find that the incumbent mayor's vote share was lower by 1.89 percentage points at the …

This paper studies the impact of the staggered introduction of digital television in Kenya between 2013 and 2017 on … measure the impact of exposure to TV on remobilization after the nullification of the 2017 presidential election. The effect …

's 2019 federal election. These findings shed light on the role of partisan media in shaping electoral outcomes by influencing …

contrast, the reigns are loosened during off-election periods to allow the media's credibility to be rebuilt. This dynamic …

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … elections, the former determines the election outcome, whereas the latter drives voter turnout. With a single media outlet, a … rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …

proxies of information supply on mass media. Using survey data from the 1997 British General Election Study, I show that …

contrast, the reigns are loosened during off-election periods to allow the media’s credibility to be rebuilt. This dynamic …