Publication: Panem et circenses: removing political news to generate electoral support, evidence from Berlusconi’s Italy
Panem et circenses: removing political news to generate electoral support, evidence from Berlusconi’s Italy
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De Angelis, A., & Vecchiato, A. (2024). Panem et circenses: removing political news to generate electoral support, evidence from Berlusconi’s Italy. Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 54(2), 119–137. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2023.32
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This paper examines the strategic use of public news media – specifically television (TV) – as an instrument of political influence, focusing on Italy's 2011 financial crisis under Berlusconi's premiership. Using an original large corpus of over 20,000 hours of televised news transcripts and a quasi-experimental design, we investigate how political influence altered media coverage and, subsequently, public opinion and electoral outcomes. Our difference-in-differences analysis, complemented by unsupervised text scaling of news content,
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- Vecchiato, Alessandro
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De Angelis, A., & Vecchiato, A. (2024). Panem et circenses: removing political news to generate electoral support, evidence from Berlusconi’s Italy. Rivista Italiana Di Scienza Politica, 54(2), 119–137. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2023.32
