Competition and turnout revisited: The importance of measuring expected closeness accurately
In: Electoral Studies, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 364-371
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In: Electoral Studies, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 364-371
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 364-372
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Journal of quantitative description: digital media: JQD:DM, Band 3
ISSN: 2673-8813
In this note we introduce a new approach to measure media alignment derived from the story-sharing behavior of journalists. We use a large corpus of online news stories from two leading Hungarian news sites and estimate alignment scores for a large number of outlets that they cite. To the extent that journalists are more likely to cite ideologically proximate sources, our measure can be used to compare a large number of media outlets on a political — in our case government vs. independent — space. We demonstrate the use of this approach with two empirical applications. First, we show that our alignment scores successfully capture known ideological variation across outlets at a single point in time. Second, we demonstrate that quarterly estimates of alignment for a captured outlet change dramatically following an abrupt change in ownership.
In: Political behavior, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 1247-1264
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 882-892
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 882-892
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: Public choice, Band 160, Heft 3, S. 327-344
ISSN: 0048-5829
In: Public choice, Band 160, Heft 3-4, S. 327-344
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: American political science review, Band 112, Heft 1, S. 186-193
ISSN: 1537-5943
We report the results of an intervention that targeted anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary using an online perspective-taking game. We evaluated the impact of this intervention using a randomized experiment in which a sample of young adults played this perspective-taking game, or an unrelated online game. Participation in the perspective-taking game markedly reduced prejudice, with an effect-size equivalent to half the difference between voters of the far-right and the center-right party. The effects persisted for at least a month, and, as a byproduct, the intervention also reduced antipathy toward refugees, another stigmatized group in Hungary, and decreased vote intentions for Hungary's overtly racist, far-right party by 10%. Our study offers a proof-of-concept for a general class of interventions that could be adapted to different settings and implemented at low costs.
In: Electoral Studies, Band 35, S. 115-122
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 115-122
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 35, S. 115-122
ISSN: 0261-3794