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E-lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
Abstract
This paper analyzes the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hindered the roll-out of fixed-line infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find negative effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, which we relate to a crowding-out of TV consumption and increased entertainment consumption. We find no evidence that the Internet systematically benefits specific parties, suggesting ideological self-segregation in online information consumption. Robustness tests, including placebo estimations from the pre-Internet period, support a causal interpretation of our results. (JEL D12, D72, L82, L86)
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Gentzkow, M. (2006) · Quarterly Journal of Economics · doi:10.1162/qjec.121.3.931 · Cited by 842 · cited 5×
“…supporting a certain political ideology (cf. DellaVigna and Kaplan 2007; Durante and Knight, 2011) or the media might concentrate on political issues of general interest and crowd out local topics since the media serve increasingly integrated markets (Snyder and Strömberg, 2010; Gentzkow, 2006).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialThe Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics
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“Gentzkow et al. (2011) analyze the effect of increased newspaper coverage in a panel of all U.S. newspapers published in English language that existed between 1869 and 2004.”
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- Authors
- Falck, O., Gold, R., & Heblich, S.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2014-07-01
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2238-2265
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1912888988
- Cited by
- 312
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 119.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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