The messenger of inflation: how media change political competition/ created by Paulo Reis Mourao

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Mourao, Paulo Reis [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Applied economics letters ; Volume 20, number 3New York: Taylor and Francis, 2013Content type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

13504851

Subject(s):

Margins of electoral victory -- Inflation rates -- Media

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HB.A666 APP

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Abstract: Voters do not like bad economic news, especially rising inflation rates. How voters learn about this news, not simply the news itself, can affect electoral behaviour. This article reports a study of media and electoral behaviour between 1960 and 2006 in 70 democratic states. It demonstrates that high inflation rates, combined with intense media coverage, resulted in more political competition and tight electoral races. Our detailed results show that European (EU-27) voters are more sensitive to television and radio coverage than they are to printed press coverage of negative economic news when compared with non-European electorates.

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Voters do not like bad economic news, especially rising inflation rates. How voters learn about this news, not simply the news itself, can affect electoral behaviour. This article reports a study of media and electoral behaviour between 1960 and 2006 in 70 democratic states. It demonstrates that high inflation rates, combined with intense media coverage, resulted in more political competition and tight electoral races. Our detailed results show that European (EU-27) voters are more sensitive to television and radio coverage than they are to printed press coverage of negative economic news when compared with non-European electorates.

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