Holding Back Democratic Diffusion: China's Strategic Manipulation of Domestic Perceptions of Democracy

• In Event: JSS 9
  In JSS Session: New Faces in Chinese Politics: Political Economy

Brief Overview

In this paper, I use a large news corpus test the hypothesis that autocracies, like China, use their control over state media to portray democracy abroad in a negative light to dissuade its citizens from demanding political reform.

Author

• Patrick J Chester, New York University