Board #43 - From Tolerance to Termination: Analyzing Kazakhstan’s Methods of Repressing Journalists

• In Event: 75-300 - Poster Session: Challenges to the Legitimacy of Authoritarian Governments

Brief Overview

This paper explores how the Kazakhstani government determines whether to repress, jail, exile, or tolerate journalists, offering insight into how electoral autocracies navigate press repression while mitigating the risks of mass dissent.

Author

• Dina Zhanybekova, University of Pennsylvania