Does Unequal Distribution of Resources Influence Digital Repression?

• In Event: JSS: Public Opinion and Regime Endurance

Brief Overview

How does resource allocation influence digital repression? I argue that state leaders prolong their political rule by censoring and/or shutting down the Internet to reduce information transparency when resources are unequally distributed.

Authors

• Ding-Yi Lai, National Chung Cheng University

• Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica