Controlling Public Dissent Through Media: State Coverage on Administrative Lawsuits in China

• In Event: Censorship, Propaganda, and Information Control Under Authoritarian Rule

Brief Overview

Why would an autocrat publicize potentially government-disruptive information? Using a novel dataset on China’s administrative lawsuits, the paper explains this seemingly self-defeating choice with the co-optation and repression strategy.

Author

• Jongyoon Baik, University of Chicago