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Ideological Segregation Online and Offline

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2015

We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American … ideological segregation in each domain using standard indices from the literature on racial segregation. We find that ideological … segregation of online news consumption is low in absolute terms, higher than the segregation of most offline news consumption, and …

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Looking Beyond the Incumbent : The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

Chong, Alberto - 2011

Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if there is consistent evidence suggesting that voters...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117216

Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs : A Field Experiment

Gerber, Alan - 2010

Political partisanship is strongly correlated with attitudes and behavior, but it is unclear from this pattern whether partisan identity has a causal effect on political behavior and attitudes. We report the results of a field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of party...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150909

The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2009

We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these events and allows for the possibility of confounding...

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He Who Counts Elects : Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election

Chaves, Isaias N. - 2009

This paper constructs measures of the extent of ballot stuffing (fraudulent votes) and electoral coercion at the municipal level using data from Colombia's 1922 Presidential elections. Our main findings are that the presence of the state reduced the extent of ballot stuffing, but that of the...

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Economics and Ideology : Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals

Brunner, Eric J. - 2010

Using California ballot proposition returns and exogenous shifts to labor demand, we provide the first large-scale causal evidence of the impact of economic conditions on policy preferences. Consistent with economic theory, we find that positive economic shocks decrease support for...

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The Real Swing Voter'S Curse

Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar - 2021

A key idea in political economy is that policy is often tailored to voters who are not ideologically attached - swing voters. We show, however, that in political environments where political parties can use repression and violence to exclude voters from elections, they may optimally target the...

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Are There Civic Returns to Education?

Dee, Thomas S. - 2021

The hypothesized effects of educational attainment on adult civic engagement and attitudes provide some of the most important justifications for government intervention in the market for education. In this study, I present evidence on whether these externalities exist. I assess and implement two...

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Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis

Hummel, Patrick - 2012

This paper addresses a key question on the design of electoral systems. Should all voters vote on the same day or should elections be staggered, with late voters observing early returns before making their decisions? Using a model of voting and social learning, we illustrate that sequential...

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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Michaels, Guy - 2013

We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using over 3,000 verbs from more than 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the...

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