Mass Media Competition, Political Competition, and Public Policy

By David Strömberg. 2004

475 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• A Spatial Theory of News Consumption and Electoral Competition (2008, background): “Finally, when θ > βR, (20) requires p(r, l, θ) > 0.”
• Media Capture in a Democracy: The Role of Wealth Concentration (2005, background): “In Strömberg (2004), the media transmit politicians campaign promises to the electorate.”
• Press Coverage and Political Accountability (2010, unknown): “The results in Section VI are related to the findings that media penetration has been found to influence government spending (Strömberg 1999, 2004b; Besley and Burgess 2002).”
• Democracy, visibility and public good provision (2007, background): “For instance, Besley and Burgess (2002) and Stromberg (2004) analyze the role of the media in promoting political competition and thereby increasing government responsiveness in providing public goods.”
• Newspaper Closures Polarize Voting Behavior (2018, background): “Declining access to quality local news is harmful to voter behavior and responsive governance, leading to more corruption (Arnold, 2004; Besley, Burgess, & Prat, 2002; Campante & Do, 2014; Strömberg, 2004) and lower voter turnout (Schulhofer-Wohl & Garrido, 2013).”
• Internet and Politics: Evidence from U.K. Local Elections and Local Government Policies (2015, background): “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,…”
• A Spatial Theory of Media Slant and Voter Choice (2011, background): “In Gentzkow and Shapiro (2006), Baron (2006), Stromberg (2004), and Bovitz et al. (2002), the reader is assumed to use information from the news to make a private decision.”
• Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services (2005, background): “Several studies have examined the conditions of competition in political and economic markets and the resulting incentives for the kind and quantity of information disseminated by the media industry (Djankov and others 2002; Mullainathan and Shliefer 2002; Strömberg 2004).”
• Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability (2006, unknown): “Prior literature has highlighted, both theoretically and empirically, the importance of media in guaranteeing political accountability (Besley and Burgess [6]) or in determining resource allocation (Stromberg [ 29 , 30]).3 Those works study channels through which the media in‡uence”