Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development

We argue that mass media is a mechanism of institutional evolution and identify three important effects media has on institutions. The "gradual effect" involves media contributing to marginal changes in existing institutions. The "punctuation effect" involves media catalyzing rapid institutional...

A large literature establishes the connection between institutions and economic performance. Comparatively little work, however, explores the process of institutional change. How do development-enhancing institutions emerge where they do not already exist? This paper investigates this question...