Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina
• 署名单位: New Economic School; New Economic School; Paris School of Economics
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.7.3253
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 3253-3285
• 关键词: news; BIAS; television; ELECTIONS; DEMOCRACY; press

摘要

This paper compares electoral outcomes of 1999 parliamentary elections in Russia among geographical areas with differential access to the only national TV channel independent from the government. It was available to three-quarters of Russia's population and its signal availability was idiosyncratic, conditional on observables. Independent TV decreased aggregate vote for the government party by 8.9 percentage points, increased the combined vote for major opposition parties by 6.3 percentage points, and decreased turnout by 3.8 percentage points. The probability of voting for opposition parties increased for individuals who watched independent TV even controlling for voting intentions measured one month before elections.