The following research nurtures an environment of freedom in our contemporary society. Climate change demands attention … areas appear to hold novel and unprecedentedly-described freedom challenges in our contemporary world. In an homage to … freedom, the following paper first lays open these freedom-threatened areas in order to then provide strategies to alleviate …

This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …

may protest against a ruler, but they may also protest to restore him after a palace coup. In choosing media freedom, the … media freedom is a ruler's instrument for Bayesian persuasion, used to manage the competing risks of coups and protests. A …

provides evidence for this channel by examining the relationship between media freedom and citizens' political knowledge. It … finds a large, positive, and highly significant association between media freedom, political knowledge, political … active. These results are robust to sample, specification, and alternative measures of media freedom …

may protest against a ruler, but they may also protest to restore him after a palace coup. In choosing media freedom, the … media freedom is a ruler's instrument for Bayesian persuasion, used to manage the competing risks of coups and protests. A …

reform and spreads media freedom between countries. Using spatial econometric techniques, and a sample of 102 countries, we … test for the presence of geographic spillovers in media freedom. We find that a country's level of media freedom … significantly depends on its neighbors. Countries 'catch' approximately 25 percent of their media freedom from neighboring countries …

This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …