Why Does Propaganda Work? Evidence on Framing of Responsibility by State-Owned Media in Russia

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

Brief Overview

Based on survey experiments in Russia that vary exposure to state-owned media, I show that such coverage fails to shift beliefs about policy responsibility but improves perceptions of policy performance and government support.

Author

• Georgiy Syunyaev, Columbia University