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Sunlight disinfects? Free media in weak democracies

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dc.creatorFergusson Talero, Leopoldo
dc.creatorVargas Duque, Juan Fernando
dc.creatorVela, Mauricio
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-02T15:55:12Z
dc.date.available2015-10-02T15:55:12Z
dc.date.created2013
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractFree media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak, and may even bring undesirable unintended consequences. We propose a simple model in which politicians running for office may engage in coercion to obtain votes. A media scandal that exposes these candidates increases their coercion effort to offset the negative popularity shock. This may result in the tainted politicians actually increasing their vote share. We provide empirical evidence from one recent episode in the political history of Colombia, the ‘parapolitics’ scandal featuring politicians colluding with illegal armed paramilitary groups to obtain votes. We show that colluding candidates not only get more votes than their clean competitors, but also concentrate them in areas where coercion is more likely (namely, areas with more paramilitary presence, less state presence, and more judicial inefficiency). Harder to reconcile with other explanations and as a direct test of the effects of media exposure, we compare tainted candidates exposed before elections to those exposed after. We find that those exposed before elections get as many votes as those exposed once elected, but their electoral support is more strongly concentrated in places where coercion is more likely. Our reeng
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10948
dc.identifier.editorialUniversidad del Rosariospa
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10948
dc.language.isospa
dc.publisherUniversidad del Rosariospa
dc.publisher.departmentFacultad de Economíaspa
dc.relation.citationIssueNo. 132
dc.relation.citationTitleSerie Documentos de trabajo. Economía
dc.relation.ispartofSerie documentos de trabajo. No 132 (Febrero 2013)spa
dc.relation.urihttps://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000092/010484.html
dc.rights.accesRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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dc.rights.ccAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombiaspa
dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspa
dc.subject.ddcDerechos civiles & políticos
dc.subject.keywordMediaeng
dc.subject.keywordElectionseng
dc.subject.keywordColombiaeng
dc.subject.keywordCivil Conflicteng
dc.subject.keywordCoercioneng
dc.subject.lembCiencia políticaspa
dc.subject.lembDelitos políticosspa
dc.subject.lembMedios de comunicación de masasspa
dc.subject.lembConducta políticaspa
dc.subject.lembPartidos políticos::Responsabilidad Socialspa
dc.titleSunlight disinfects? Free media in weak democraciesspa
dc.typeworkingPapereng
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