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Federal spending is lower in areas where there is less press coverage of the local members of congress.
Here is much more, ungated here; there is a claim of causality and the paper is interesting throughout.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 31, 2008 at 07:49 AM in Political Science | Permalink
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Posted by: ferte at Mar 31, 2008 9:10:57 AM
I saw this paper. They say that press coverage and spending are lower when there are papers have less ability to report on the politician (because district lines do not overlap with paper beats). This result seems to be efficient: no coverage, no patronage; more coverage, more patronage.
The implication, obviously, is that newspapers should stop covering politicians -- less pork spending and better government management of OUR tax money.
Posted by: David Zetland at Mar 31, 2008 12:31:47 PM
When we lived in Des Moines the newspaper was constantly calculating the net federal dollars into or out of the state. They always wanted a net inflow to prove Congressional/Senatorial effectiveness.
Posted by: muggsie at Apr 1, 2008 1:13:22 PM
Posted by: zhengxinshe at May 13, 2008 10:50:16 PM
