Political agency, government responsiveness and the role of the media

By T. Besley, Robin Burgess. 2001

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers: Extended Version (2012, unknown): “Given (14): ∆(β, π) ≡ max{PA(A, β, π), PB(B, β, π)}− (PA(C, β, π) + PB(C, β, π)), then”
The Right Price of Food: Reflections on the Political Economy of Policy Analysis and Communication (2011, unknown): “…poverty, 47 A rapidly growing literature documents other effects of mass media on development such as its effect on political accountability (e.g. Besley and Burgess (2001), Djankov et al (2003)) and its impact on reducing corruption in public policy (Francken et al (2008), Reinikka and Svensson…”
Mass media and political accountability (2002, background): “The principals are the citizens of the polity who finance government activities through taxes and are subject to various regulations, and the agents are the elected officials and bureaucrats who determine policy outcomes.(3)”
Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets (2013, unknown): “…media empowers people politically, and a more informed and politically active electorate increases the incentives for a government to be responsive (Besley and Burgess 2001; Strömberg 24 Mass media can also affect policy making by creating a bias in the provision of information (Baron 2006;…”
The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies: Recent Contributions, New Insights, and Areas for Further Research (2010, background): “First, access to mass media empowers people politically: a more informed and politically active electorate increases the incentives for a government to be responsive (Besley and Burgess 2001; Besley and Pratt 2006; Strömberg 2004a).”
A Contribution to the Empirics of Press Freedom and Corruption (2007, background): “The first, Brunetti and Weder (2003) test the hypothesis that a free press should a priori be associated to lower corruption.”
Economic and Social Impacts of the Media (2015, unknown): “15 women’s status in rural India.”