Telecracy: Testing for Channels of Persuasion

Guglielmo Barone; Francesco D’Acunto; Gaia Narciso (2015) · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-55", tranche="tranche100")

Guglielmo Barone; Francesco D’Acunto; Gaia Narciso (2015). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Table 3.

Template assessment

The source is a spatial-border regression of the 2010-minus-2005 vote-share change with distance polynomials and turnout weights. Applying panel adoption estimators to this first-differenced cross-section would change the design.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.