Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election

Martin Guzi () and Štěpán Mikula

No 14856, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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 municipalitylevel 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)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2021-11
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Published - published in: Economic Letters , 2021, 209, 110152

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