Faculty Research Support Grant:
Amit Ahuja, Political Science
Poor People’s Protests and the Press The project studies selection bias in the media by drawing on a unique, observations-based dataset of all protest activity at India’s most popular protest site over a period of 44 months. Democratic accountability assumes unbiased and exhaustive coverage of citizens’ agitation by the news media. The project will compare media’s selection bias against poor people’s protests and protests of other social segments, across twelvetop Indian newspapers. It hypothesizes that the news media is more
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