Careful what you say: The effect of manipulative information on the 2013 Czech presidential run-off election

Martin Guzi () and Štěpán Mikula

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 209, issue C

Abstract: We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that emerged during the Czech presidential run-off election to identify the impact of inaccurate and misleading information on electoral outcomes. A political campaign associated a vote for one of the candidates with a legally and politically unfounded risk relevant to people owning houses confiscated from ethnic Germans after the Second World War. Using municipality-level data in a difference-in-differences framework, our analysis suggests that the manipulative campaign affected the electoral outcomes and increased voter turnout in municipalities with a higher share of voters at risk of the unproven threat to housing ownership.

Keywords: Manipulative information; Voting; Sudetenland; 2013 Czech presidential election (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 P14 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110152

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