The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV

Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea

doi:10.1257/aer.20150958

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“…9 campaign or turning out to a protest. These range from traditional and social media (Enikolopov and Petrova, 2015, Enikolopov et al, 2020, Durante et al, 2019, to the behavior of other citizens (Perez-Truglia and Cruces, 2017, González, 2020, and Cantoni et al, 2019.…”

Section: Swiss Direct Democracy: Overview and The Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying the Effect of Election Closeness on Voter Turnout: Evidence from Swiss Referenda

Bursztyn¹,

Cantoni²,

Funk³

et al. 2017

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Models of voting, including the canonical rational voter model, predict that voters are more likely to turn out when they anticipate a closer election. Yet, evidence of a causal effect of anticipated election closeness on voter turnout is limited. We exploit naturally occurring variation in the existence, closeness, and dissemination of pre-election polls to identify a causal effect of anticipated election closeness on voter turnout in Swiss referenda. Closer elections are associated with greater turnout only when polls exist. Examining within-election variation in newspaper reporting on polls across cantons, we find that close polls increase turnout significantly more where newspapers report on them most. This holds examining only "incidental" exposure to coverage by periodicals whose largest audience is elsewhere. The introduction of polls had larger effects in politically unrepresentative municipalities, where locally available information differs most from national polls.

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Section: Swiss Direct Democracy: Overview and The Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying the Effect of Election Closeness on Voter Turnout: Evidence from Swiss Referenda

Bursztyn¹,

Cantoni²,

Funk³

et al. 2017

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“…First, a growing body of papers study the role of media in politics: Strömberg (2004b), Gentzkow (2006), Larcinese (2007), DellaVigna and Kaplan (2007), Ferraz and Finan (2008), Prat and Strömberg (2005), Snyder and Strömberg (2010), Enikolopov, Petrova, and Zhuravskaya (2011), Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Sinkinson (2011), Drago, Nannicini, and Sobbrio (2014), and Durante, Pinotti, and Tesei (2015), among others, investigate how different media affect voters' behavior. Within this strand of the literature, particularly related to our paper are the recent contributions of Falck, Gold, and Heblich (2014), who find that internet availability has had a negative effect on voter turnout in Germany; of Campante, Durante, and Sobbrio (Forthcoming), who find that broadband had an initial negative effect on turnout in Italian national elections, but, over time, has fostered other forms of online and offline participation; and of Miner (2015), who finds that areas with higher internet penetration in Malaysia experience higher turnout and higher turnover.…”

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Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies

Gavazza

Nardotto

Valletti

2018

The Review of Economic Studies

130

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We empirically study the effects of broadband internet diffusion on local election outcomes and on local government policies using rich data from the U.K. Our analysis shows that the internet has displaced other media with greater news content (i.e. radio and newspapers), thereby decreasing voter turnout, most notably among less-educated and younger individuals. In turn, we find suggestive evidence that local government expenditures and taxes are lower in areas with greater broadband diffusion, particularly expenditures targeted at less-educated voters. Our findings are consistent with the idea that voters’ information plays a key role in determining electoral participation, government policies, and government size.

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“… See Gentzkow et al (2016);Puglisi and Snyder (2015) for a survey of, respectively, the theoretical and empirical aspects of media bias in the literature.10 SeeStrömberg (2004);Gentzkow (2006); Oberholzer-Gee and Waldfogel (2009);Snyder and Strömberg (2010);Gentzkow et al. (2011);Drago et al (2014);DellaVigna and Kaplan (2007);Gerber et al (2009);Snyder and Strömberg (2010);Enikolopov et al (2011);Gentzkow et al (2011);Durante et al (2015).…”

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The Logic of Fear: Populism and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes

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We study how news coverage of immigrant criminality impacted municipality-level votes in the November 2009 "minaret ban" referendum in Switzerland. The campaign, successfully led by the populist Swiss People's Party, played aggressively on fears of Muslim immigration and linked Islam with terrorism and violence. We combine an exhaustive violent crime detection dataset with detailed information on crime coverage from 12 newspapers. The data allow us to quantify the extent of pre-vote media bias in the coverage of migrant criminality. We then estimate a theory-based voting equation in the cross-section of municipalities. Exploiting random variations in crime occurrences, we find a first-order, positive effect of news coverage on political support for the minaret ban. Counterfactual simulations show that, under a law forbidding newspapers to disclose a perpetrator's nationality, the vote in favor of the ban would have decreased by 5 percentage points (from 57.6% to 52.6%).

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The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV

Cited by 178 publications

References 83 publications

Identifying the Effect of Election Closeness on Voter Turnout: Evidence from Swiss Referenda

Identifying the Effect of Election Closeness on Voter Turnout: Evidence from Swiss Referenda

Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies

The Logic of Fear: Populism and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes

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