Authoritarian Propaganda is Effective Across Political Contexts and Audiences: A Meta-reanalysis of Experiments

• In Event: Experiments on Persuasion and Propaganda

Brief Overview

We present a meta-reanalysis of experiments estimating the effects of authoritarian propaganda. Propaganda is similarly effective at improving evaluations of regime performance and shifting policy views across a wide range of audiences and contexts.

Authors

• Bardia Rahmani, Princeton University

• Jiayi Zhang, Stanford University

• Alexander Coppock, Northwestern University

• Jennifer Pan, Stanford University