| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28849 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28849 |
| The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States | |
| Thomas Fujiwara; Karsten Müller; Carlo Schwarz | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-05-31 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study how social media affects election outcomes in the United States. We use variation in the number of Twitter users across counties induced by early adopters at the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, a key event in Twitter's rise to popularity. We show that this variation is unrelated to observable county characteristics and electoral outcomes before the launch of Twitter. Our results indicate that Twitter lowered the Republican vote share in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, but had limited effects on Congress elections and previous presidential elections. Evidence from survey data, primary elections, and a text analysis of millions of tweets suggests that Twitter's relatively liberal content may have persuaded voters with moderate views to vote against Donald Trump. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28849 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586523 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas Fujiwara,Karsten Müller,Carlo Schwarz. The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States. 2021. |
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| w28849.pdf（13142KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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