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This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic. Focusing on federal and state election outcomes in the post-reunification decade (i.e., a time at which TV...
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accountability of politicians. We study this in the context of Canada, where until 1958, competition in television markets was … suppressed-Canadians received either public or private television content, but never both. While public television provided … national-level informational content, private television content was distinctly local and more politically relevant to voters …
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