American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · 2024 · Irena Grosfeld、Etienne Madinier、Seyhun Orcan Sakalli、Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
中文摘要
利用波兰媒体格局的一次剧烈变化，我们表明主流媒体能够显著影响宗教参与。2015年民族主义民粹主义政党“法律与公正党”（PiS）上台后，由于国家电视台的宣传，国家电视台与私人独立电视台的新闻报道出现分化，导致其部分观众转向独立电视台。能够收看独立电视台的市镇继续遵循长期世俗化趋势，而只能收看国家电视台的市镇则经历了这一趋势的逆转。一项在线实验揭示了接触独立新闻对宗教性产生影响背后的机制。（JEL D12, D83, L82, Z12）
Abstract
Exploring a drastic change in media landscape in Poland, we show that mainstream media can significantly affect religious participation. After nationalist populist party PiS came to power in 2015, news on state and private independent TV diverged due to propaganda on state TV, resulting in a switch of some of its audience to independent TV. Municipalities with access to independent TV continued to follow a long-term secularization trend, while municipalities with access only to state TV experienced a reversal of this trend. An online experiment sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the effect of exposure to independent news on religiosity. (JEL D12, D83, L82, Z12)