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Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928
出版National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HoE2MwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Using data from 1869-1928, we estimate the effect of party control of state elected offices on the entry, exit, circulation, and content of Republican and Democratic daily newspapers. We exploit changes over time in party control of the governorship and state legislatures in a differences-in-differences design. We also present regression-discontinuity estimates based on the outcomes of close gubernatorial elections and state legislatures with small majorities. Our main estimates show no evidence that incumbent governments influence the press, and are precise enough to rule out modest effects. Estimates for politically significant times and places where we would expect the scope for government intervention to be relatively large also show little evidence of influence. The one exception is the post-Reconstruction South, an episode that we discuss in detail.