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

Puglisi, Riccardo

doi:10.2139/ssrn.573801

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“…The e¤ect on expected rent is con…rmed by observing that R 0 (q) = W 0 (q). 24 The result that in every PSPBEW an informed outlet accepts t i > a and rejects t i < a holds also if the incumbent's o¤ers are observed by all outlets. The line of reasoning above is entirely independent from the information that outlets have about transfers made to other outlets.…”

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Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability

Besley

Prat

2006

American Economic Review

896

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It has long been recognized that the media play an essential role in government accountability. However, even in the absence of censorship, the government may in ‡uence news content by maintaining a "cozy" relationship with the media. This paper develops a model of democratic politics in which media capture is endogenous.The model o¤ers insights into the features of the media market that determine the ability of the government to exercise such capture and hence to in ‡uence political outcomes.We are grateful to Silvia Pezzini for research assistance and to Carolee McLeish and Simeon Djankov for providing us with data. We thank Ben Bernanke and two anonymous referees for comments. We have also received helpful advice from Stephen Coate, Torsten Persson, Juan Pablo Rud, David Stromberg and a number of seminar participants.

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Section: Proof Of Propositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But then, if i rejects the o¤er, it is the only outlet to break news and he gets a: a contradiction. 24 The fact that outlets accept t i > a and rejects t i < a means that in every PSPBEW the incumbent silences the media if n a < r and does not silence them if n a > r.…”

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Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability

Besley

Prat

2006

American Economic Review

896

673

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“…There are no outlets with audiences that have P Scores that are liberal to the same extent that these are conservative, but some liberal preference is visible in the audiences of outlets like the New York Times (0.604) (considered to be liberal leaning [9,11]) and NPR's Morning Edition (0.659).…”

Section: Media Audiences' Political Preferencementioning

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Computing political preference among twitter followers

Golbeck

Hansen

2011

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

108

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Through anecdotal evidence and a variety of methods, claims are constantly being made about the bias of media outlets. As many of those outlets create online personas, we seek to measure the political preferences of their audience, rather than of the outlet itself. In this paper, we present a method for computing political preferences of an organization's Twitter followers using congressional liberal/conservative ADA scores as a seed. We apply this technique to characterize the political preferences of major news media Twitter audiences. We discuss how this technique can be extended or used to create personalized recommendations and insights for news seekers and social media analysts and marketers.

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“…Van Winden (2015) gives a broad overview over the effects of such 54 See e.g. Puglisi (2011), Lacrinese et al (2011), Strömberg (2004, DellaVigna & Kaplan (2007). 55 Osterloh & Heinemann (2013) also present survey evidence for politicians, which indicates that they individually have relatively coherent belief systems, which however differ between ideological camps.…”

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Behavioral political economy: A survey

Schnellenbach

Schubert

2015

European Journal of Political Economy

126

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That's what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who played the game of politics should also be considered rational and selfinterested, unlike the benevolent despot of earlier models. History repeats itself with the rise of behavioral economics: Assuming cognitive biases to be present in the market, but not in politics, behavioral economists often call for government to intervene in a "benevolent" way. Recently, however, political economists have started to apply behavioral economics insights to the study of political processes, thereby re-establishing a unified methodology. This paper surveys the current state of the emerging field of "Behavioral Political Economy" and considers the scope for further research. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: D780, D030, A120, D720.

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

Cited by 63 publications

References 37 publications

Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability

Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability

Computing political preference among twitter followers

Behavioral political economy: A survey

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