How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical
evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that …

Introduction/Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker--Misinformation, disinformation, and
online propaganda/Andrew M. Guess and Benjamin A. Lyons--Social media, echo …

In the context of increasing concern about climate issues, corporate environmental, social
and governance (ESG) performance has received widespread attention from the public. Our …

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for
controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be …

We construct a new index of media slant that measures the similarity of a news outlet's
language to that of a congressional Republican or Democrat. We estimate a model of …

" Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest
barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being …

This paper uses publicly released audit reports to study the effects of disclosing information
about corruption practices on electoral accountability. In 2003, as part of an anticorruption …

The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens are a key issue in political
economy. Here, we develop a model based on the solution of political agency problems …

We investigate the market for news under two assumptions: that readers hold beliefs which
they like to see confirmed, and that newspapers can slant stories toward these beliefs. We …

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political
accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that …