Autocratic Propaganda in Comparative Perspective

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

Brief Overview

We develop a theory of autocratic propaganda that explains why different autocrats employ different propaganda strategies. We test it with a dataset that contains over 5 million unique propaganda articles from 68 countries in six languages.

Authors

• Brett Logan Carter, University of Southern California

• Erin Baggott Carter, University of Southern California