Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy.
Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media m...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Politics Vol. 77; no. 2; pp. 575 - 588 |
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University of Chicago Press
Apr2015
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