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DOI:10.1017/psrm.2017.43 - Corpus ID: 156816326
@article{Ban2018HowNR, title={How Newspapers Reveal Political Power}, author={Pamela Ban and Alexander Fouirnaies and Andrew B. Hall and James M. Jr. Snyder}, journal={Political Science Research and Methods}, year={2018}, volume={7}, pages={661 - 678}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:156816326}}- Pamela Ban, Alexander Fouirnaies, J. Snyder
- Published in Political Science Research… 11 January 2018
- Political Science
Political science is in large part the study of power, but power itself is difficult to measure. We argue that we can use newspaper coverage—in particular, the relative amount of space devoted to particular subjects in newspapers—to measure the relative power of an important set of political actors and offices. We use a new dataset containing nearly 50 million historical newspaper pages from 2,700 local US newspapers over the years 1877–1977. We define and discuss a measure of power we develop…
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