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endorsers on the extent of electoral manipulation. With a single endorser, a rise in bias affects the election outcome in a non … party vote shares from an ex-ante perspective. Nevertheless, such information manipulation can systematically affect the … election outcome and voter turnout. We apply our framework to study the influence of the endorser's bias and the entry of new …
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We use plausibly exogenous variation in the availability of Russian analog television signal in Ukraine to study how a media source with a conspicuous political agenda impacts political behavior and attitudes. Using highly granular election data and an original survey we estimate that Russian...
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position of the median voter does not change. We show that media bias provides a mechanism through which political polarization … suppression bias and update appropriately, important information is lost through bias, potentially resulting in inefficient …
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We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …
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We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political … find any evidence of the existence of neither an electoral cycle, nor an ideological bias in the coverage of corruption …
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expressed on each face. I find strong evidence for nonverbal media bias in both the choice of which politicians to cover and the …
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