Hi all,
This week at the Applied Statistics Workshop will be welcoming Michael Peress, Associate
Professor of Political Science and Economics at SUNY-Stony Brook (and here at Harvard this
year). He will be presenting work entitled "Does Newspaper Coverage Mediate the
Economic Vote?" Please find the abstract below and on the
website.<https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0870>
We will meet in CGIS Knafel Room 354 at noon and lunch will be provided.
Best,
Pam
Title: Does Newspaper Coverage Mediate the Economic Vote?
Abstract: Do voters punish incumbent governments when economic performance is poor or when
the media report that economic performance is poor? We draw on an original data set of
over 2 million newspaper articles reporting on the economy in 32 newspapers in 16
developed democracies over 32 years. We develop procedures for coding newspaper sentiment
on the economy and apply our results to study the role of the media in driving the
economic vote. Our results indicate voters respond directly to unemployment, but respond
to newspaper coverage of growth. Our results suggest that newspapers play an important
role in mediating the economic vote.