Over the first decade of the 21st Century, the Internet and its convergence with mobile communications has enabled … the world’s population – use the Internet. However, during the same period, defenders of digital rights have raised … growing concerns over how legal and regulatory trends might be constraining online freedom of expression. Anecdotal accounts …

-political stability to generate a socio-political stability index. Media freedom may promote socio-political stability by making the …

theoretically ambiguous. This paper therefore explores this association by estimating the effect of degrees of freedom of expression … association between freedom of expression and terrorism. We explore this association empirically in a large panel of 162 countries … observed between 1970 and 2016. Distinguishing between media freedom and discussion freedom, and separating democracies and …