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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

Can television have a mitigating effect 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 …

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Media's role in the making of a democrat : evidence from East Germany

Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2019

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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