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Television increases the information available to voters. This assertion appears obvious and unobjectionable. A more interesting and debatable question is how this change in information alters voter behavior? How is the politician transformed in the voter’s mind by the innovation of legislative television?
Learn your lines, don’t bump into the furniture and, in kissing, keep your mouth closed.
Ronald Regan advising Senators in 1986 on how to deal with televised coverge of the Senate.
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The economics of voting literature is surveyed in the second chapter. Some of the important articles are Tollison and Willett (1973), and Tollison, Crain, and Pautler (1975).
See Nelson (1970, 1974).
The discussion follows from questions raised in the exchange between Nelson (1976), Telser (1976), and Ferguson (1976).
See Abrams and Settle (1976).
This comparison between advertised and actual performance becomes even more viable when it is recognized that most final votes on legislation are taken near the end of the session, that is, close to election day. See Crain and Tollison (1980) and Crain, Leavens, and Tollison (1986).
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Crain, W.M., Goff, B.L. (1988). Legislative Television: The Transformation of Politicians. In: Televised Legislatures: Political Information Technology and Public Choice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2671-4_3
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