Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. -- elections …This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony …

What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the … 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the … FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that internet penetration in US counties is associated with an increase in …

overall electoral turnout at national parliamentary elections. Party vote share analysis shows significant shifts across the … broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …

for classified advertising from other changes brought about by the Internet, and to compare newspapers that relied more or …

We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters' support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …

retaliation is effective: in areas exposed to retaliation Republican candidates fared worse in the 2018 Midterm elections, and …