This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the
changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which …

We present a formal model of government control of the media to illuminate variation in
media freedom across countries and over time. Media bias is greater and state ownership of …

In Making Sense of Media and Politics, Gadi Wolfsfeld introduces readers to the most
important concepts for examining the interrelationship of media and politics. Five major …

Do presidential campaign advertisements mobilize, inform, or persuade citizens? To answer
this question we exploit a natural experiment, the accidental treatment of some individuals …

Nearly five hundred times in the past century, American presidents have deployed the
nation's military abroad, on missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale wars …

The notion that the media's principal role regarding public opinion is reinforcement of pre-
existing attitudes–and that this idea is relative inconsequential politically–is pervasive …

We provide a comprehensive assessment of the influence of television advertising on United
States election outcomes from 2000–2018. We expand on previous research by including …

For most of the history of the United States, citizens and elected officials alike considered
elementary and secondary education to be the quintessential state and local function. Only …

The geographic idiosyncrasies of states and media markets set the stage for a natural
experiment in which residents of a given state may be exposed to widely varying quantities …

Presidential elections provide both an important context in which to study advertising and a
setting that mitigates the challenges of dynamics and endogeneity. We use the 2000 and …