Media and Politics

Strömberg, David

doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-080213-041101

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“…In fact, within autocracies and democracies alike, political competition increases the costs of censorship since a relatively free media grants public visibility for politicians, allowing them to pander or posture to their electoral constituency (Malesky et al 2012;Strömberg 2015).…”

Section: Political Costs and Benefits Of Media Censorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship

Huci¹,

Hamilton²

2018

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Section: Political Costs and Benefits Of Media Censorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship

Huci¹,

Hamilton²

2018

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“…The formal literature on biased media is divided into two broad themes: (a) an economic literature that tries to uncover its origin (reviewed in Gentzkow, Shapiro, and Stone 2015) and (b) a political economy literature that assesses the impact of media bias (reviewed in Strömberg ). This article belongs to this last category.…”

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Are Biased Media Bad for Democracy?

Wolton

2019

American J Political Sci

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This article assesses the normative and positive claims regarding the consequences of biased media using a political agency framework that includes a strategic voter, polarized politicians, and news providers. My model predicts that voters are always better informed with unbiased than with biased outlets even when the latter have opposite ideological preferences. However, biased media may improve voter welfare. Contrary to several scholars' fears, partisan news providers are not always bad for democracy. My theoretical findings also have important implications for empirical analyses of the electoral consequences of changes in the media environment. The impact of left-wing and right-wing biased outlets depends on the partisan identity of officeholders. Empirical findings may, thus, not be comparable across studies or even over time within a study. Existing empirical works are unlikely to measure the consequences of biased media, as researchers never observe and can rarely approximate the adequate counterfactual: elections with unbiased news outlets.

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“…Given that any agents are interested in limiting press freedom, the next question is the mechanism through which they do so. Strömberg (2015) emphasizes that media can serve three main political purposes: agenda-setting, priming influence and framing. First, the most direct way of achieving the level of influence that allows a government or an economic interest necessary to, for example, control the agenda in public debate is to actively own the media.…”

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The Hayek–Friedman hypothesis on the press: is there an association between economic freedom and press freedom?

Bjørnskov

2017

Journal of Institutional Economics

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The Hayek–Friedman hypothesis states that economic freedom is causally associated with stable democracy. I test a particular element of the hypothesis focusing on press freedom, which is arguably a necessary component of any democratic polity. Combining the Freedom House index of press freedom and the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom yields a large annual panel dataset between 1993 and 2011. Estimates show that improvements in economic freedom are associated with subsequent improvements of press freedom. The overall association is mainly driven by changes in market openness.

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Media and Politics

Abstract: This article provides a review of recent literature in economics on the effect of mass media on politics. The focus is on the welfare effects of mass media. I also discuss the likely implications of existing behavioral theories of media effects, developed outside of economics.

Cited by 122 publications

References 92 publications

Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship

Selective Control: The Political Economy of Censorship

Are Biased Media Bad for Democracy?

The Hayek–Friedman hypothesis on the press: is there an association between economic freedom and press freedom?

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