Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Sobbrio, Francesco

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2326705

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“…I have noted that there is strong empirical evidence that a quantitatively significant fraction of voters switch away from leading candidates in the UK (Franklin et al ., ) and the US (Burden, ). There is further evidence for many other countries including Austria, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and others (van der Brug et al ., ; Bergh, ; Erlingsson and Persson, ; Campante et al ., ; Superti, ).…”

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A Theory of Protest Voting

Myatt

2016

The Economic Journal

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The supporters of a mainstream candidate contemplate voting for a special‐issue minority party (which risks opening the door to a disliked opponent) in order to influence mainstream policy. Protest voting reacts negatively to expectations about others' enthusiasm for the protest issue, more so if the candidate learns from the protest and responds endogenously. I find that electoral support for single‐issue protest parties can be negatively related to the true underlying enthusiasm for their causes. The risk that the candidate loses office are maximised when the expected enthusiasm for the protest issue makes the candidate indifferent ex ante to accepting the protesters' demands.

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A Theory of Protest Voting

Myatt

2016

The Economic Journal

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“…In addition, the available surveys do not reveal the kind of interaction users actually experience in SNS. Economic studies relying on survey data basically analyze how certain behaviors correlate to binary variables measuring broadband access ( Bauernschuster et al, 2014;Falck et al, 2014;Campante et al, 2017 ) and Internet or SNS use ( Pénard et al, 2013;Castellacci and Schwabe, 2017;Sabatini and Sarracino, 2017;Castellacci and Tveito, 2018 ).…”

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Civility and trust in social media

Antoci

Bonelli

Paglieri

et al. 2019

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to study how the effect of social media on trust varies depending on the civility or incivility of online interaction. We find that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results are robust to alternative configurations of the treatments.

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“…Our theory as well as the anecdotal evidence presented in Section 2 suggest that the Russian government strategically used state-controlled media to generate political support, by reminding the Russian population about the political and economic chaos during the years before Putin came to power. A sizeable literature has shown that the media can indeed significantly affect voting behavior ( (Campante, Durante, Sobbrio, 2017). In our paper, we build on this literature by providing further evidence that pro-government media content and state-control over the media can generate political support for the ruling party.…”

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The political economy of collective memories: Evidence from Russian politics

Belmonte

Rochlitz

2019

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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How do political elites exploit salient historical events to reactivate collective memories and entrench their power? We study this question using data from the Russian Federation under Putin. We document a substantial recollection campaign of the traumatic transition the Russian population experienced during the 1990s, starting with the year 2003. We combine this time discontinuity in the recollection of negative collective memories with regional-level information about traumatic experiences of the 1990s. Our results show that Russians vote more for the government, and less for the liberal political opposition, in regions that suffered more during the transition period, once memories from the period are recalled on state-controlled media. We then provide additional evidence on the mechanism and find, using a text analysis of local newspapers, that in those regions where local newspapers more intensively recall the chaotic 1990s, electoral support for the government is higher. Finally, we show that in regions in which the media is less independent from the state, this recollection campaign is more effective.

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Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation

Cited by 60 publications

References 39 publications

A Theory of Protest Voting

A Theory of Protest Voting

Civility and trust in social media

The political economy of collective memories: Evidence from Russian politics

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