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Political legacies of Italian entertainment TV

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  • Ruben Durante
  • Paolo Pinotti
  • Andrea Tesei

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To what extent are the media to blame for the rise of populist political leaders? Andrea Tesei and colleagues explore the impact of the light entertainment served up by Silvio Berlusconi's commercial TV network, Mediaset, on his later electoral success.

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  • Ruben Durante & Paolo Pinotti & Andrea Tesei, 2017. "Political legacies of Italian entertainment TV," CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance 505, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cepcnp:505
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    Keywords

    entertainment TV; voting; cognitive abilities; civic engagement;
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    JEL classification:

    • L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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