This paper explores the role of mass media in people's perceptions of charismatic leaders, focusing on the case of … postal service. The major findings are: (1) the frequency of exposure to mass media is positively related to the support for …

This study uses data from the 2005-10 British Election Panel Study to examine the effect of media coverage on voter … readers' previous assessments of the Labour party. I thus demonstrate that media framing of economic events, through its …

This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving … notion that access to free media influences political attitudes and facilitates the consolidation of democracy. …

constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …

We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political …

access only to friendly media outlets and denying access to critical ones. While an incumbent prefers positive bias, granting … gatekeeping can induce a quid pro quo relationship: media provides coverage with positive bias in exchange of future access …, thereby affecting electoral outcomes in favor of incompetent incumbents. The degree of access media enjoy increases with …

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media …

This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how … media environments, characterized by their levels of accessibility and variety of content, interact with citizens … which politicians react to those media-influenced views. We show how equilibrium polarization is affected by changes in the …

We build a framework linking competition in the media market to political participation. Media outlets report on the … results can reconcile seemingly contradictory empirical evidence showing that entry in the media market can either increase or …