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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
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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...
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943081
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Media markets, special interests, and voters
Fergusson, Leopoldo - In: Journal of public economics 109 (2014), pp. 13-26
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The economics of Internet media
Peitz, Martin; Reisinger, Markus - 2014
We survey the economics literature on media as it applies to the Internet. The Internet is an important driver behind … media convergence and connects information and communication technologies. While new Internet media share some properties …-tuned tailoring and targeting of ads based on individual user characteristics are common features on many Internet media and social …
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Mass media and special interest groups
Petrova, Maria - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 84 (2012) 1, pp. 17-38
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Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content
Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias - i.e., bias in the amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive -...
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Watchdog or loyal servant? : political media bias in US newscasts
Bernhardt, Lea; Dewenter, Ralf; Thomas, Tobias - 2020
We investigate if four leading, electronic news gathering organizations in the US - ABC News, CBS News, FOX News, and NBC News - fulfill their role as the fourth estate in the US democracy. Our analysis, using the Political Coverage Index (PCI) introduced by Dewenter et al (2020), is based on...
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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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Information gatekeeping and media bias
Eraslan, Hülya; Özertürk, Saltuk - 2018
We develop a model to study the political economy implications of information gatekeeping, i.e., a policy of granting access only to friendly media outlets and denying access to critical ones. While an incumbent prefers positive bias, granting access improves her re-election probability only if...
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