TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ottinger, Sebastian
AU  - Posch, Max
        TI  - The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers
        PY  - 2022/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15078
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15078
        AB  - We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media content in the 1890s. The Populist Party sought support among poor farmers, regardless of race, providing the segregationist Democratic establishment in the South with an incentive to fan racial outrage to alienate white voters from the Populists. Using text data from local newspapers and a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that stories of sexual assaults by Black men on white women became more prevalent in counties where the Populists threatened the Democratic dominance, and in Democratic newspapers only.
        KW  - propaganda
KW  - divide and rule
KW  - political threat
KW  - media
        ER  -