Careful what you say: The effect of manipulative information on the 2013 Czech presidential run-off election

GUZI, Martin and Štěpán MIKULA. Careful what you say: The effect of manipulative information on the 2013 Czech presidential run-off election. ECONOMICS LETTERS. LAUSANNE: Elsevier, 2021, vol. 209, December, p. 1-6. ISSN 0165-1765. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110152.

Basic information

• Original name: Careful what you say: The effect of manipulative information on the 2013 Czech presidential run-off election
• Authors: GUZI, Martin (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Štěpán MIKULA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: ECONOMICS LETTERS, LAUSANNE, Elsevier, 2021, 0165-1765.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50202 Applied Economics, Econometrics
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 1.469
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14560/21:00119324
• Organization unit: Faculty of Economics and Administration
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110152
• UT WoS: 000728740500002
• Keywords (in Czech): Manipulative information;Voting;Sudetenland;2013 Czech presidential election
• Keywords in English: Manipulative information; Voting; Sudetenland; 2013 Czech presidential election
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that emerged during the Czech presidential run-off election to identify the impact of inaccurate and misleading information on electoral outcomes. A political campaign associated a vote for one of the candidates with a legally and politically unfounded risk relevant to people owning houses confiscated from ethnic Germans after the Second World War. Using municipality-level data in a difference-in-differences framework, our analysis suggests that the manipulative campaign affected the electoral outcomes and increased voter turnout in municipalities with a higher share of voters at risk of the unproven threat to housing ownership. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Links

• GA18-16111S, research and development project: Name: Rezidenční mobilita, sociální kapitál a důvěra: doklady z přirozeného experimentu

Investor: Czech Science Foundation