Media Attention and Bureaucratic Responsiveness
Media Attention and Bureaucratic Responsiveness
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媒体关注和官僚反应
DOI:
10.1093/jopart/muab001
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Bagozzi, Benjamin E.
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作者:
Erlich, Aaron;Berliner, Daniel;Palmer-Rubin, Brian;Bagozzi, Benjamin E.
How does media attention shape bureaucratic behavior? We answer this question using novel data from the Mexican federal government. We first develop a new indicator for periods of anomalously heightened media attention, based on 150,000 news articles pertaining to 22 Mexican government ministries and agencies, and qualitatively categorize their themes. We then evaluate government responsiveness using administrative data on roughly 500,000 requests for government information over a 10-year period, with their associated responses. A panel fixed-effects approach demonstrates effects of media attention on the volume of outgoing weekly responses, while a second approach finds effects on the “queue” of information requests already filed when anomalous media attention begins. Consistent across these empirical approaches, we find that media attention shapes bureaucratic behavior. Positive or neutral attention is associated with reduced responsiveness, while the effects of negative attention vary, with attention to governmentfailuresleading to increased responsiveness but attention tocorruptionleading to reduced responsiveness. These patterns are consistent with mechanisms of reputation management, disclosure threat, and workload burden, but inconsistent with mechanisms of credit claiming or blame avoidance.
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