Propaganda, Free Media and Discriminative Censorship in Authoritarian Countries

• In Event: Repression and Censorship

Brief Overview

Our game-theory model focuses on propaganda and censorship strategies in authoritarian regimes. It shows that informative propaganda can be a dictator's deliberative choice and that porous censorship is the dominant method for indoctrination.

Authors

• Yuyang Shi, Harvard University

• Hanning Luo, Harvard University