The Judge, the Politician, and the Press: Newspaper Coverage and Criminal Sentencing across Electora...
The Judge, the Politician, and the Press: Newspaper Coverage and Criminal Sentencing across Electoral Systems
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American Economic Association
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English
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We study how media environments interact with political institutions that structure the accountability of public officials. Specifically, we quantify media influence on the behavior of US state court judges. We analyze around 1.5 million criminal sentencing decisions from 1986 to 2006 and new data on the newspaper coverage of 9,828 trial court judg...
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The Judge, the Politician, and the Press: Newspaper Coverage and Criminal Sentencing across Electoral Systems
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TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_125213
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_125213
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1945-7782,1945-7790
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1945-7790
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10.1257/app.20140111
