Manufacturing Obedience: Entertainment Media and Authoritarian Support

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Brief Overview

We examine a nationwide TV subsidy program in rural China and find that adolescents exposed to TV later exhibit higher regime support, increased political trust, and fewer protests.

Authors

• Haotian Bai, University of Oxford

• Siyuan Fan, University of California, San Diego

• Wenyi Lu, New York University

• Shangkun Xie, Renmin University of China