Censoring the Press: A Barometer of Government Tolerance for Anti-regime Dissent under Authoritarian Rule
This paper proposes that dissident leaders aiming to build mass opposition movements follow the mainstream press to help them gauge government tolerance for anti-government mass actions in repressive authoritarian regimes. Under conditions of censorship, media–state interactions serve as a barometer...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Politics in Latin America |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/960 |