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来源IDDP13496
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
URLhttps://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
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Mathieu Couttenier,Sophie Hatte,Stephanos Vlachos. DP13496 The Logic of Fear - Populism and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes. 2019.
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