This vulnerability makes some large news organisations particularly powerful around the world, write Andrea Prat and Patrick Kennedy.
The media industry is unique in its ability to spread information that may influence the democratic process. There is ample evidence that news coverage influences voting and policy-making, and this issue has become even more prominent after the controversy over the role […]
Introducing The Politics of Race in American Film: a new podcast from the LSE US Centre featuring Dr Clive James Nwonka
Obama’s inaction in Syria is nothing new – the US has been selective in its Middle Eastern interventions for a century.
Streetcars and light rail services serve different rider markets in American cities.
The Supreme Court’s ‘fair share’ case is an existential threat to public sector unions. But it may force them to engage and embrace choice.
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Greater transparency at the Fed has led to better informed, though sterile, internal debate and discussion.
Greater transparency at the Fed has led to better informed, though sterile, internal debate and discussion.
If central banks publish the transcripts of their internal policy debates, will discussions be enhanced or inhibited? Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Andrea Prat use tools from computational linguistics to analyze the positive and negative effects of transparency on deliberations of the monetary policymakers at the US Federal Reserve.
The world’s major central banks display significant differences in transparency. The European Central Bank […]