Mass Media and Public Policy: Global Evidence from Agricultural Policies
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Mass Media and Public Policy: Global Evidence from Agricultural Policies
Mass media plays a crucial role in information distribution and thus in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that information provided by mass media reflects the media’s incentives to provide news to different types of groups in society, and affects these groups’ influence in policy-making. We use data on agricultural policy from 67 countries, spanning a wide range of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The World Bank Economic Review
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1564-698X,0258-6770
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lht008