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Article: Legislative television: public interest or public choice?(Anthology)
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- Atlantic Economic Journal
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- December 1, 2003
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Television coverage of legislatures provides sizable increases in political information for voters and other constituents to use in evaluating their representatives. A public interest view of the legislative process suggests that incumbents would, if technologically feasible, support television. Legislators, by adopting legislative television (or not), control access to these additional informational cues. As Crain and Goff [Televised Legislatures, 1988] explain, public choice suggests incumbents will support legislative television only if it serves their political interests (for example, holding on to office or re-election). This view is supported by Mixon et al. ...
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