Public Service Broadcasting of Sport, Shows, and News to Mitigate Rational Ignorance
Rothbauer J, Sieg G
Zusammenfassung
Rational individuals may use a tax or license-fee financed public service TV channel to mitigate the paradox of rational ignorance. The approach presented in this article assumes that increased consumption of information by voters improves democratic decisions, but marginal returns decrease. Depending on how fast marginal returns decrease, the public service TV channel broadcasts either only (unbiased serious) news or, to induce voters to watch the informational content, sports and shows (entertainment) as well.
Schlüsselwörter
Public Service Broadcasting; voter behavior
Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel (Zeitschrift)
Begutachtet
Ja
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Jahr
2013
Fachzeitschrift
Journal of Media Economics
Band
26
Ausgabe
1
Erste Seite
21
Letzte Seite
40
Sprache
Englisch
ISSN
0899-7764
DOI
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