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Title: Mind what your voters read: Media exposure and international economic policy making

Author(s): Giovanni Facchini, Tommaso Frattini and Cora Signorotto

Publication Date: May 2016

Keyword(s): Media exposure, political economy, Public Opinion and Roll Call Votes

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: 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.

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Facchini, G, Frattini, T and Signorotto, C. 2016. 'Mind what your voters read: Media exposure and international economic policy making'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11282