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Mass media effects on the production of information : evidence from non-governmental organization (NGO) reports

Couttenier, Mathieu; Hatte, Sophie - 2013 - This version: February 2013

The media report news that in turn influences behaviors. This news is drawn from a set of available information. In … this paper, we study how the set of information is "exante" affected by anticipated media coverages. First, we take an … exogenous but anticipated shock of media coverage: Olympic Games and FIFA World Cups. Then, we estimate the effect of this media …

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Biased reporting by the German media?

Löw, Franziska - 2022

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 …

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The interrelation of informal institutions and governance quality in shaping Welfare State attitudes

Pitlik, Hans; Kouba, Ludek - 2013

This paper addresses empirically determinants of individual support for the Welfare State. We examine the interrelation of informal institutions with the perceived quality of a country's institutional framework. As a proxy for informal institutions, we concentrate on three core beliefs (trust in...

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Identifying barriers to institutional change in disability services

Scharle, Ágota; Váradi, Balázs - 2013

In a comparative framework, the paper uses a recently observed shift away from cash transfers and towards the provision of rehabilitation services to identify barriers to welfare policy reform. The analysis relies on the assumption that some European welfare regimes have a similar initial...

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A welfare perspective on Nordic media subsidies

Kammer, Aske - In: Journal of media business studies 13 (2016) 3/4, pp. 140-152

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Censorship in democracy

Caesmann, Marcel; Goldzycher, Janis; Grigoletto, Matteo; … - 2024

The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is …

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FCC Reform : Scalpel or Steamroller?

Esbin, Barbara S. - 2009

The FCC Procedural Reform for Openness and Clarity Encouraging Sensible Solutions Act (FCC PROCESS Act) is a commendable effort to improve decision making at the Commission, and upon analysis it is evident the proposed reforms would do much in improving both transparency and timeliness in the...

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Media Coverage of Political Scandals

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2008

We analyze the coverage of U.S. political scandals by U.S. newspapers during the past decade. Using automatic keyword-based searches we collected data on 35 scandals and approximately 200 newspapers. We find that Democratic-leaning newspapers - i.e., those with a higher propensity to endorse...

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Being the New York Times : The Political Behaviour of a Newspaper

Puglisi, Riccardo - 2008

I analyze a dataset of news from the New York Times, from 1946 to 1997. Controlling for the incumbent President's activity across issues, I find that during the presidential campaign the New York Times gives more emphasis to topics that are owned by the Democratic party (civil rights, health...

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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2014

We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet's language is more similar to a … identity of a newspaper's owner explains far less of the variation in slant, and we find little evidence that media …

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