Computational-Content-Analysis-2018 / 12-Jan-2-What-Drives-Media-Slant-Evidence-from-U.S.-Daily-Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew & Jesse M. Shapiro. 2007. “What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers.” Econometrica 78(1): 35–71.
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How replicable is the study? Media slant with strong vs weak party identification. #4

Open zahraamalias opened 6 years ago

zahraamalias commented 6 years ago

How replicable is the study?

The electorate in the United States has strong party identification (party ID), which means that people often identify strongly with one political party or the other. The members of the Congress also uses phrases that reflect strong party ID, thus allowing indexing to determine media slant.

However, how could we do similar study on a multiparty political system? For example, how replicable is this study on media slant replicable in new democracies, which are usually typified with a large and unstable number and coalitions of political parties?

Any ideas of other means to 'index slant'?