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The Political Economy of the Mass Media

APAndrea PratDSDavid Strömberg
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Abstract

We review the burgeoning political economy literature on the influence of mass media on politics and policy. This survey, which covers both theory and empirics, is organized along four main themes: transparency, capture, informative coverage,

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Keywords
  • Ideology
  • Transparency (behavior)
  • Politics
  • Political science
  • Political economy
  • Positive economics
  • Mass media
  • Economics
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