A Model of Censorship and Propaganda

• In Event: Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Persuasion in Autocracies

Brief Overview

We extend the canonical two-state, two-action model of Bayesian persuasion to endogenize the presence of outside information. Our analysis provides new insight into the role of censorship and propaganda in authoritarian regimes.

Authors

• Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago

• Zhaotian Luo, University of Chicago

• Dmitriy Vorobyev, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Anton Shirikov, University of Wisconsin-Madison