years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test … assumption that a) potential media bias is demand-driven and b) election results can be used as a proxy for reader beliefs, the …

We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to … then estimate slant by using the number of mentions that each public intellectual receives in each media outlet. Second, we … media are quite centrist, with very few outlets being statistically distinguishable from the middle of Australian politics …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …

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 …

-coded news items from 2001 through 2012. For our econometric analysis, we use panel regressions with media and time fixed effects … can be seen as a purely exogenous event. Focusing on the entire media set, we find robust empirical results for an anti …-government bias in media reporting: Under Republican presidents, political coverage tends to be more liberal, whereas it tends to be …