Assaults on the Fourth Estate: Explaining Media Harassment in Africa
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- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Politics
- Vol. 75 (1) , 36-51
Abstract
A common threat to democratic politics in developing countries is state interference with the independent media. Despite the importance of this, we know very little about when and why governments a...Keywords
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