Handcuffs for the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability
构建了一个民主政治模型，分析政府如何通过与媒体保持“亲密”关系来影响新闻内容，并探讨媒体市场特征如何决定政府俘获媒体的能力及其政治后果。
It has long been recognized that the media play an essential role in government accountability. Even in the absence of censorship, however, the government may influence news content by maintaining a “cozy” relationship with the media. This paper develops a model of democratic politics in which media capture is endogenous. The model offers insights into the features of the media market that determine the ability of the government to exercise such capture and hence to influence political outcomes.