Propaganda in Autocracies - Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief

This book draws on the first global dataset of autocratic propaganda, encompassing eight million newspaper articles from 59 countries. It documents dramatic variation in propaganda across autocracies and explain why different autocrats employ different propaganda strategies. The book will interest anyone who cares about dictatorship and democracy.

List of contents

Part I. Foundations: 1. Persuasion and domination; 2. A theory of autocratic propaganda; 3. A global dataset of autocratic propaganda; Part II. The Political Origins of Propaganda Strategies: 4. The politics of pro-regime propaganda; 5. Narrating the domestic; 6. Narrating the world; 7. Threatening citizens with repression; Part III. The Propaganda Calendar: 8. The propagandist's dilemma; 9. Memory and forgetting; Part IV. Propaganda, Protest, and the Future: 10. Propaganda and protest; 11. Conclusion; List of figures; List of tables.

Summary

This book draws on the first global dataset of autocratic propaganda, encompassing eight million newspaper articles from 59 countries. It documents dramatic variation in propaganda across autocracies and explain why different autocrats employ different propaganda strategies. The book will interest anyone who cares about dictatorship and democracy.

Foreword

Drawing on the largest collection of propaganda ever assembled, this book explains why propaganda varies so dramatically across autocracies.

Product details

• Authors: Erin Baggott Carter, Erin (University of Southern Calif Baggott Carter, Brett L. Carter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781009271233
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927123-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Press & journalism, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, News media and journalism