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Superstars in politics : the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi

Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014 - Preprint

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 …

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The political economy of attention and electoral accountability

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024

representatives' reactions to general shifts in media attention and persuasive content as well as to short-term fluctuations in … consider the substitution effects between alternative media sources, the role of algorithmic content selection in informational …

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Competing for Attention - The Effect of Talk Radio on Elections and Political Polarization in the US

Amarasinghe, Ashani; Raschky, Paul A. - 2022

This paper studies the effects of talk radio, specifically the Rush Limbaugh Show, on electoral outcomes and attitude polarization in the U.S. We propose a novel identification strategy that considers the radio space in each county as a market where multiple stations are competing for listeners'...

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Internet Access and Electoral Participation in Colombia : Voter Apathy at the Polls

Perilla, Sergio - 2021

This paper studies the effect of expanding internet access on electoral outcomes at the municipality level in Colombia. I use a difference-in-differences strategy that compares electoral outcomes in municipalities that received the internet right before the presidential election, with those that...

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The impact of Citizens United : how the removal of independent expenditure bans shaped U.S. gubernatorial elections

Balles, Patrick - 2024

This paper examines the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which lifted bans on independent expenditures by corporations and unions. Using a difference-in-differences design, the study compares states with and without pre-existing bans, focusing on gubernatorial elections. The...

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Going Negative in Autocracy : A Field Experiment at the Moscow Mayoral Elections

Mironov, Maxim - 2020

Modern autocracies today hold elections but employ a number of tactics to control election outcomes. In response to unfairness of elections, opposition may organize negative campaign to persuade the electorate to vote against a regime candidate. The goal of this paper is to measure the...

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TV in Times of Political Uncertainty : Evidence from the 2017 Presidential Election in Kenya

Mougin, Elisa - 2020

This paper studies the impact of the staggered introduction of digital television in Kenya between 2013 and 2017 on electoral behavior in times of political uncertainty. I construct a geocoded dataset of Kenyan polling stations and TV reception. After studying the determinants of signal...

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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation

Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...

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The electric telegraph, news coverage and political participation

Wang, Tianyi - 2023

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Persuading voters with partisan TV news : a natural experiment using spatial reception data

Hérault, Nicolas; Kollmann, Trevor; Thomson, Russell - 2024

We estimate the causal effect of partisan media on voter behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which Sky News …-to-air launch. We find that exposure to partisan media increased the conservative party's lead by 1.5 percentage points in Australia …'s 2019 federal election. These findings shed light on the role of partisan media in shaping electoral outcomes by influencing …

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