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Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less secure by reducing information about discontent. We explore the nature and resolution of this dilemma with a formalization that builds on recent work in the political economy
Scott Gehlbach   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chapter 3. “Jungle Shows Burma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In contrast to the Thailand side of the railway, POW workers on the Burma side had been sent to Burma from the Netherlands East Indies and Sumatra.
Eldredge, Sears
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Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Volume 19, Number 4 - May 1937 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1937
Volume 19, Number 4 - May 1937. 64 pages including covers and advertisements. Hughes, Edward Riley, Commencement Geary, William Denis, O Salutaris Hostia Ryan, John J., On Propaganda and Art Gibbons, Walter F., Escape Serry, Franklin ...

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Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.
Abstract When the hypotheses and presumptions underlying an ethnographic fieldwork project are found to be “wrong,” why can this be productive for research? By tying my autoethnographic narrative of having my doctoral research seemingly fall apart to anthropological conversations about reflexivity, this essay explores how the continuity of ethnography ...
Dylan H. O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting fire with fire: Prebunking with the use of a plausible meta‐conspiracy framing

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Prebunking can be used to pre‐emptively refute conspiracy narratives. We developed a new approach to prebunking – fighting fire with fire – which introduces a plausible ‘meta‐conspiracy’ suggesting that conspiracy theories are deliberately spread as part of a wider conspiracy.
Mikey Biddlestone   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Epistemic Dimensions of Civil Disobedience

open access: yes, 2023
Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alexander Bryan
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-Jewish Propaganda in the NDH and the Slovak State

open access: yes, 2020
This paper examines the nature of the anti-Semitic propaganda used by the Slovak State and the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska -- NDH) during World War II, taking into account the two countries’ unique and common objectives ...
Vadkerty, Madeline
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