Does Media Coverage Amplify the Visibility of Extremist General-Election Candidates? Evidence from American Legislatures

• In Event: Campaigns, Social Media, and the News

Brief Overview

Does the media cover extremist and moderate candidates' campaigns differently? Using a primary-election RDD, we estimate the effect of the coin-flip primary nomination of an extremist over a moderate on their party's general-election media coverage.

Authors

• Janet Malzahn, Stanford University

• Andrew Myers, Stanford University