We study the connection between employment and political control. Many employment relationships concede rents to … the political institutions, the presence of such rents allows employers to use the threat of withdrawing them to control … to control the behavior of others. The analysis focuses on the salient example of political control, where landlords …

's control of the agenda does not …

; political economy ; mass media ; internet …

This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving … notion that access to free media influences political attitudes and facilitates the consolidation of democracy. …

investigated for criminal offenses from January 2012 to June 2017. We also construct an index of each outlet's media slant by …

We document the importance of local information in mass media for the political engagement of citizens and … districts. Our findings qualify existing knowledge about the political effects of the rollout of new media, by allowing the … informational content to vary while holding the media type constant. We support our argument with evidence from parliamentary …

discipline the media before elections to secure favorable media coverage of the incumbent, thereby discourage public dissent. In … contrast, the reigns are loosened during off-election periods to allow the media’s credibility to be rebuilt. This dynamic … creates distinct electoral cycles of media repression in autocracies. Our empirical study establishes these cycles using a …