This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage …

paper reviews the relationships between the quality of information supplied by mass media, the competition in information … information-selection process and companies’ rent-seeking activities. Media can be captured by government through financing and …

Free, independent and hard-hitting media can play an important role in curbing corruption. Media in Uganda has enjoyed … considerable freedom in this regard since Museveni came to power in 1986. The evolving power structure and a changing media … landscape, however, have presented both challenges and opportunities for media’s watchdog role on corruption. This paper will …

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This paper analyzes critically the state of regulated media in developing economies. In order to engender rapid growth … and structural change the state is required to control the media to provide the essential conditions of stability and … societal change. This media-for-development orthodoxy has held sway for more than six decades now, leading to governments …

We present a formal model of government control of the media to illuminate variation in media freedom across countries … and over time, with particular application to less democratic states. The extent of media freedom depends critically on … two variables: the mobilizing character of the government and the size of the advertising market. Media bias is greater …