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The internet has transformed the way in which voters access and receive political information, such that it has … to filter relevant information themselves. The introduction phase of the internet coincided with a decreasing voter … internet’s effects on the consumption of information is also relevant for how voters view labor policies. …
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This paper analyses the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address … endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hindered the roll-out of fixed-line infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find negative effects of Internet …
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Variation in political slant across media outlets, and demand for such slant, has been studied extensively. We conduct a novel within-outlet (and within-topic) analysis of the demand for "congenially" slanted news. We study so-called horse race news from six major online outlets for the 2012 and...
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We study the strategic interaction between candidates to office and the print media, exploring the following tension: while the media is instrumental for candidates to communicate with voters, candidates and media outlets have conflicting preferences over the contents of media reporting. We...
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for classified advertising from other changes brought about by the Internet, and to compare newspapers that relied more or …
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Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …
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Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …
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the use of the internet per se that matters but the specific use of social networks for political activity. …
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for classified advertising from other changes brought about by the Internet, and to compare newspapers that relied more or …
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broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …
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