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THEORY-1217: Both owner ideology and favor exchange drove the Hungarian portal Origo's reduced coverage of corruption in 2013–2016: favor exchange alone cut it by 29–44%, the new owner's ideology alone by 63% after 2016, and the two together by 74%, so they are substitutes; and a ban on targeted government advertising would have raised it by 41–79%

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StatusProposed
Tagssociety-and-governance, social-science
SourceLIT-1315 — Media Capture Through Favor Exchange
ExtendsTHEORY-852 — Under Szeidl and Szucs's structural model and its identifying assumptions (an owner's ideology fixed across episodes; the government's online advertising budget not driven by the outlets' slant), both owner ideology and favor exchange drove the Hungarian portal Origo's reduced coverage of corruption in 2013–2016: favor exchange alone cut it by 29–44%, the new owner's ideology alone by 63% after 2016, and the two together by 74%, so they are substitutes; and a ban on targeted government advertising would have raised it by 41–79%

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Source

Szeidl and Szucs (2021), LIT-1315, Section 4.4, Tables IV and V; read in NOTE-1039. The estimates conditional on the model and its identifying assumptions are THEORY-852, which this entry extends.

Why it is Proposed

The split between ideology and exchange is identified only if an owner’s ideology is fixed across episodes and the government’s online budget does not respond to slant. The authors argue for both and test neither.

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