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Mind What Your Voters Read: Media Exposure and International Economic Policy Making

Author(s) -

Giovanni Facchini,

Tommaso Frattini,

Cora Signorotto

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.2399032

Subject(s) - policy making , political science , public relations , public economics , psychology , economics , public administration

We investigate how media exposure affects elected representatives’ response to preferences on immigration and trade policy. Using a novel dataset spanning the period 1986-2004, in which we match individual opinion surveys with congressmen roll call votes, we find that greater exposure to media coverage tends to increase a politician’s accountability when it comes to migration policy making, while we find no effect for trade policy. Our results thus suggest that more information on the behavior of elected officials affects decisions only when the policy issue is perceived to be salient by the electorate. JEL classication : F22, J61.

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