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

Giovanni Facchini, Tommaso Frattini and Cora Signorotto ()
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Cora Signorotto: University of Milan and Centro Studi Luca d�Agliano

No 358, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: e investigate the role of constituents' preferences in shaping the voting behavior of elected representatives 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.

Keywords: Trade Reforms; Immigration Reforms; Individual preferences; Media exposure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2013-10-13
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-int, nep-mig and nep-pol
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