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Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests? : policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout
Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2019
We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of January 2012 that increased the salience of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119766
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175
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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance
Hodler, Roland - 2010
Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430085
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Compulsory voting and public finance
Hodler, Roland - 2010
Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758913
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Does Public Attention Reduce the Influence of Interest Groups? Policy Positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the Internet Blackout
Matter, Ulrich - 2016
We investigate the role that public attention plays in determining the effect that campaign contributions funded by interests groups have on legislators' policy positions. In so doing, we exploit the Internet service blackout of January 2012 as a quasi-experiment in which a shock increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977589
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211217
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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Balles, Patrick - 2018
constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906525
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Media Markets, Special Interests, and Voters
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2017
This paper examines the role of mass media in countering special interest group influence. I use the concentration of … 2002, and compare the reaction of voters to increases in concentration in two different types of media markets – in …-state media markets and out-of-state media markets. Unlike in-state media markets, out-of-state markets focus on neighboring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167896
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024
media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512422
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Mass Media and Special Interest Groups
Petrova, Maria - 2012
Media revenues are an important determinant of media behavior. It is generally accepted that news coverage depends not … only on the preferences of media consumers but also on the preferences of advertisers or subsidizing groups. However …, existing models reach the opposite conclusions about the relationship between the profitability of advertising and media bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216834