Propaganda in autocracies : institutions, information, and the politics of belief
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Bibliographic Information
Propaganda in autocracies : institutions, information, and the politics of belief
(Political economy of institutions and decisions)
Cambridge University Press, 2023
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-520) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly believe otherwise, a dictator's power is anything but, as the Soviet Union's collapse revealed. This conviction - that power rests ultimately on citizens' beliefs - compels the world's autocrats to invest in sophisticated propaganda. This study draws on the first global data set of autocratic propaganda, encompassing nearly eight million newspaper articles from fifty-nine countries in six languages. The authors document dramatic variation in propaganda across autocracies: in coverage of the regime and its opponents, in narratives about domestic and international life, in the threats of violence issued to citizens, and in the domestic events that shape it. The book explains why Russian President Vladimir uses Donald Trump as a propaganda tool and why Chinese state propaganda is more effusive than any point since the Cultural Revolution.
Table 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.
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