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The impact of incumbency on turnout : evidence from Italian municipalities

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2013

We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...

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Shaken politics : the electoral outcomes of disasters and social capital

Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2025

recorded during the earthquake with European election results and social capital metrics. Our findings indicate that the …

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The tuesday advantage of politicians endorsed by American newspapers

Leon, Fernanda Leite Lopez de - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 13 (2013) 2, pp. 865-886

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Disentangling demand and supply of media bias : the case of newspaper homepages

Tin Cheuk Leung; Strumpf, Koleman S. - 2024

In this study, we propose a novel approach to detect supply-side media bias, independent of external factors like ownership or editors' ideological leanings. Analyzing over 100,000 articles from The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), complemented by data from 22 million...

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Media consolidation

Martin, Gregory J.; Mastrorocco, Nicola; McCrain, Joshua; … - 2024

effects of ownership by the three largest television conglomerates on local news advertising, content, and viewership …

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Being the New York Times : The Political Behaviour of a Newspaper

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2008

I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controlling for presidential and congressional activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights,...

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Media Coverage of Political Scandals

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2008

We analyze the coverage of U.S. political scandals by U.S. newspapers during the past decade. Using automatic keyword …-based searches we collected data on 35 scandals and approximately 200 newspapers. We find that Democratic-leaning newspapers - i … involving Republican politicians than scandals involving Democratic politicians, while Republican-leaning newspapers tend to do …

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Being the New York Times : The Political Behaviour of a Newspaper

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2008

I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controlling for the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights, health...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771336

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 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619739