Killing the messenger: Government corruption and attacks on reporters

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Brief Overview

In this paper we show that the condition of high corruption, particularly in combination with a lack of capacity to control information spreading in less blunt ways, increases the probability that reporters will be killed by states.

Authors

• Ragnhild Nordaas, University of Michigan

• Corina Simonelli, University of Michigan