Anti-Media Discourse, Partisanship, and Violence Against Journalists: Evidence from Chávez’s Venezuela

• In Event: Political Violence and the State

Brief Overview

Anti-media rhetoric can increase journalists' vulnerability to violence. Evidence comes from instrumental variable models using original microdata on government-sponsored anti-media messages and attacks against journalists in Chávez's Venezuela.

Author

• Kyong Mazzaro, The Graduate Center, CUNY