Replication data for: The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Ruben Durante; Paolo Pinotti; Andrea Tesei
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Project Citation:
Durante, Ruben, Pinotti, Paolo, and Tesei, Andrea. Replication data for: The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116167V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We study the political impact of commercial television in Italy exploiting the staggered introduction of Berlusconi's private TV network, Mediaset, in the early 1980s. We find that individuals with early access to Mediaset all-entertainment content were more likely to vote for Berlusconi's party in 1994, when he first ran for office. The effect persists for five elections and is driven by heavy TV viewers, namely the very young and the elderly. Regarding possible mechanisms, we find that individuals exposed to entertainment TV as children were less cognitively sophisticated and civic-minded as adults, and ultimately more vulnerable to Berlusconi's populist rhetoric.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
L82 Entertainment; Media
M31 Marketing
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
L82 Entertainment; Media
M31 Marketing
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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