Does candidates? media exposure affect vote shares? Evidence from Pope breaking news

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Caprini, Giulia
• 署名单位: University of Oxford; University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104847
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: TV coverage; media; POLITICS; voting

摘要

I study the impact of politicians' media exposure in campaign on their vote share, exploiting an exoge-nous change in coverage during the Italian 2013 electoral race. Right before the election, the Pope Benedict XVI suddenly resigned and broadcast coverage of politics markedly dropped. Only five days of lower visibility of the right-wing leader and TV tycoon Berlusconi (-26 percentage points) caused a 2 percentage points dip in his vote share, and lead to his defeat by 0.4 percentage points. Following the TV coverage disruption, a part of Berlusconi's electorate resorted to Internet for political news, and later favored a new party with Internet-centred propaganda. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).