Power-Sharing and Media Freedom under Dictatorships

• In Event: Sound of Silence: Media in Authoritarian Regimes

Brief Overview

Why do some dictatorships allow for media freedom? We contend that allowing for media freedom increases the regime transparency and stabilizes the agreement of power-sharing between the dictator and elites.

Authors

• Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Hans H. Tung, National Taiwan University

• Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica & Harvard-Yenching Institute