Meet the press : how voters and politicians respond to newspaper entry and exit

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dc.contributor.authorDRAGO, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorNANNICINI, Tommaso
dc.contributor.authorSOBBRIO, Francesco
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-09T17:20:17Z
dc.date.available2016-03-09T17:20:17Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses an original dataset covering the presence of local news in medium-large Italian cities in the period 1993–2010 to evaluate the effects of newspaper entry and exit on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. Exploiting discrete changes in the number of newspapers, we show that newspaper entry increases turnout in municipal elections, the reelection probability of the incumbent mayor, and the efficiency of the municipal government. We do not find any effect on the selection of politicians. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first newspaper entry.
dc.identifier.citationAmerican economic journal: applied economics, 2014, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 159-188
dc.identifier.doi10.1257/app.6.3.159
dc.identifier.endpage188
dc.identifier.issn1945-7782
dc.identifier.issn1945-7790
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage159
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/39489
dc.identifier.volume6
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/80898:169290253
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican economic journal : applied economics
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Florence School of Regulation]en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Communications and Media]en
dc.titleMeet the press : how voters and politicians respond to newspaper entry and exit
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