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Title: Foreign Media and Protest Diffusion in Authoritarian
Regimes: The Case of the 1989 East German Revolution
Authors: Holger Kern
Entrydate: 2008-11-25 13:35:50
Keywords: Germany, media, causal inference, matching,
authoritarian, collective action, social movement
Abstract: Does access to foreign media facilitate the
diffusion of protest in authoritarian regimes? Apparently for
the first time, I test this hypothesis by exploiting a natural
experiment in communist East Germany. I take advantage of the
fact that West German television broadcasts could be received in
most but not all parts of East Germany and conduct a matched
analysis in which counties without access to West German
television are matched to a comparison group of counties with
West German television. Comparing these two groups of East
German counties, I find no evidence that West German television
affected the speed or depth of protest diffusion during the 1989
East German revolution.
http://polmeth.wustl.edu/retrieve.php?id=849
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