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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi
Sabatini, Fabio; Yamamura, Eiji - Econometica - 2014
landslide electoral victory, this study empirically assesses the influence of television (TV) and newspapers on individuals … platform, charisma and attractiveness wield a greater influence on TV watchers of the opposite sex. Television apparently works …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933358
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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the koizumi regime
Yamamura, Eiji; Sbatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
regime. We conduct an empirical assessment, looking at the influence of television and newspapers on the support for Koizumi … support for his principal policy and (2) the effect of watching television is only observed for women and that of reading the … newspaper only for men. Thus, a charismatic male leader on television has a greater influence than his policy on female voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109242
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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the koizumi regime
Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
regime. We conduct an empirical assessment, looking at the influence of television and newspapers on the support for Koizumi … support for his principal policy and (2) the effect of watching television is only observed for women and that of reading the … newspaper only for men. Thus, a charismatic male leader on television has a greater influence than his policy on female voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110919
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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi
Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2014
landslide electoral victory, this study empirically assesses the influence of television (TV) and newspapers on individuals … platform, charisma and attractiveness wield a greater influence on TV watchers of the opposite sex. Television apparently works …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985769
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584548
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Who trusts Berlusconi? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643453
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Democracy or videocracy? An econometric analysis of the role of television in the Italian political arena
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025249
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The Instrumental Voter Goes to the News-Agent: Demand for Information, Election Closeness, and the Media
Larcinese, Valentino - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2003
This paper studies the impact of instrumental voting on information demand and mass media behaviour during electoral campaigns. If voters act instrumentally then information demand should increase with the closeness of an election. Mass media are modeled as profit-maximizing firms that take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005582693
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E-lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2014
This paper analyses the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hindered the roll-out of fixed-line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010789920
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Voting Alone? The Political and Cultural Consequences of Commercial TV
Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2013
We investigate the long-term impact of early exposure to Berlusconi’s commercial TV network, Mediaset, on voting behavior and civic engagement in Italy. To do so, we exploit differences in Mediaset signal reception across Italian municipalities due to the network’s staggered introduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071685