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Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico
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Elections Under Authoritarianism
Jennifer Gandhi,Ellen Lust-Okar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines literature that investigates the purpose of elections in dictatorships; the electoral behavior of voters, candidates, and incumbents in these elections; and the link between elections and democratization.
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China's Strategic Censorship
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors show that under some conditions, a regime optimally permits investigative reporting on lower-level officialdom, adjusting how much reporting is allowed depending on the level of underlying social tensions.
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Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Acknowledgements)
Shanthi Kalathil,Taylor C. Boas +1 more
TL;DR: Through a country-by-country analysis, Kalathil and Boas shed light on practices formerly known only by anecdote, and their findings chip away at the apocryphal notion that going digital necessarily means going democratic.
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Exploiting a Rare Communication Shift to Document the Persuasive Power of the News Media
TL;DR: The authors used panel data and matching techniques to study the persuasive power of the news media and found that the endorsement switch to the Labour Party by several prominent British newspapers before the 1997 United Kingdom general election provided an opportunity to test for news media persuasion while avoiding methodological pitfalls.
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Social Context and Campaign Volatility in New Democracies: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil's 2002 Elections
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the mechanisms of voter volatility and, more broadly, the ways in which citizens learn about issues and candidates in weak-party systems, and demonstrate the importance of political discussion within social networks and neighborhood context for explaining preference change during election campaigns.
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Journal ArticleDOI
Elections Under Authoritarianism
Jennifer Gandhi,Ellen Lust-Okar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines literature that investigates the purpose of elections in dictatorships; the electoral behavior of voters, candidates, and incumbents in these elections; and the link between elections and democratization.
Journal ArticleDOI
China's Strategic Censorship
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors show that under some conditions, a regime optimally permits investigative reporting on lower-level officialdom, adjusting how much reporting is allowed depending on the level of underlying social tensions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Acknowledgements)
Shanthi Kalathil,Taylor C. Boas +1 more
TL;DR: Through a country-by-country analysis, Kalathil and Boas shed light on practices formerly known only by anecdote, and their findings chip away at the apocryphal notion that going digital necessarily means going democratic.
Journal ArticleDOI
Exploiting a Rare Communication Shift to Document the Persuasive Power of the News Media
TL;DR: The authors used panel data and matching techniques to study the persuasive power of the news media and found that the endorsement switch to the Labour Party by several prominent British newspapers before the 1997 United Kingdom general election provided an opportunity to test for news media persuasion while avoiding methodological pitfalls.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Context and Campaign Volatility in New Democracies: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil's 2002 Elections
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the mechanisms of voter volatility and, more broadly, the ways in which citizens learn about issues and candidates in weak-party systems, and demonstrate the importance of political discussion within social networks and neighborhood context for explaining preference change during election campaigns.