National Bureau of Economic Research.
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"In this paper we estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy... Exploring the links in the causal chain of media effects -- voter information, politicians' actions and policy -- we find statistically significant and substantively important effects. Voters living in areas with less coverage of their U.S. House representative are less likely to recall their representative's name, and less able to describe and rate them. Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies..."
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