| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP13496 |
| DP13496 The Logic of Fear - Populism and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes | |
| Mathieu Couttenier; Sophie Hatte; Stephanos Vlachos | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-01-30 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study how news coverage of immigrant criminality impacted municipality-level votes in the November 2009 "minaret ban" referendum in Switzerland. The campaign, successfully led by the populist Swiss People's Party, played aggressively on fears of Muslim immigration and linked Islam with terrorism and violence. We combine an exhaustive violent crime detection dataset with detailed information on crime coverage from 12 newspapers. The data allow us to quantify the extent of pre-vote media bias in the coverage of migrant criminality. We then estimate a theory-based voting equation in the cross-section of municipalities. Exploiting random variations in crime occurrences, we find a first-order, positive effect of news coverage on political support for the minaret ban. Counterfactual simulations show that, under a law forbidding newspapers to disclose a perpetrator's nationality, the vote in favor of the ban would have decreased by 5 percentage points (from 57.6% to 52.6%). |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Violent crimes Immigration Vote Populism |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp13496 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542312 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mathieu Couttenier,Sophie Hatte,Stephanos Vlachos. DP13496 The Logic of Fear - Populism and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes. 2019. |
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