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Shadmehr, Mehdi and Bernhardt, Dan (2015) State censorship. American Economic Journal : Microeconomics , Volume 7 (Number 2). pp. 280-307. doi:10.1257/mic.20130221 ISSN 1945-7669.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.20130221
Abstract
We characterize a ruler's decision of whether to censor media reports that convey information to citizens who decide whether to revolt. We find: (i) a ruler gains (his ex ante expected payoff increases) by committing to censoring slightly less than he does in equilibrium: his equilibrium calculations ignore that censoring less causes citizens to update more positively following no news; (ii) a ruler gains from higher censorship costs if and only if censorship costs exceed a critical threshold; (iii) a bad ruler prefers a very strong media to a very weak one, but a good ruler prefers the opposite.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mass media -- Censorship, Authoritarianism | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | American Economic Journal : Microeconomics | ||||||
Publisher: | American Economic Association | ||||||
ISSN: | 1945-7669 | ||||||
Official Date: | May 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 7 | ||||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 87 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 280-307 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1257/mic.20130221 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 December 2015 |
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