'It's The Sun Wot Won It': Evidence of media influence on political attitudes and voting from a UK quasi-natural experiment

Do print media significantly impact political attitudes and party identification? To examine this question, we draw on a rare quasi-natural experiment that occurred when The Sun, a right-leaning UK tabloid, shifted its support to the Labour party in 1997 and back to the Conservative party in 2010. W...

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Main Authors: Reeves, A, Stuckler, D, Martin McKee
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015