Programming Presidential Agendas: Partisan and Media Environments That Lead Presidents to Fight Crime and Corruption

Stein, Elizabeth A.; Kellam, Marisa

doi:10.1080/10584609.2012.762075

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“…A subdued press cannot carry out its ideal democratic functions of informing the citizenry and monitoring government if the press lacks adequate protections of its freedom and independence. For example, research demonstrates that greater freedom of the press is associated with less corruption and better governance (e.g., Camaj, 2013; Stein & Kellam, 2014). In contrast, where the media are not free, “contestation” cannot exist and thus neither can democracy.…”

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Stein

2015

Comparative Political Studies

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The media hold democratically elected leaders accountable by exposing corruption and policy failures. Although many politicians accept media criticism as intrinsic to liberal democracy, some politicians rein in freedom of the press or intimidate media outlets to silence their critics. We identify circumstances that motivate and enable presidents to curb media freedom in presidential democracies. We argue that (a) presidents who hold ideological positions contrary to those of the mainstream media adopt the media as viable opponents in the absence of an effective electoral opposition, and (b) the media are vulnerable to presidential infringements on their freedom where legislatures and judiciaries hold weak powers relative to presidents, and are therefore unable to constrain presidents’ actions against media freedom. We support our argument with quantitative analyses of press freedom ratings in presidential and semi-presidential democracies from 1993 to 2013.

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2015

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“…In recent years, press freedom's study has taken a more prominent role in the political communication and political science literature, especially in the comparative context of democratization and transitional regimes. Scholars have also begun to study the nuances of media systems' regional characteristics around the world (Lucas, ; VonDoepp and Young, ; Stein and Kellam, ; Stanig, ). New data and a focus on the component parts of media freedom allow researchers to expand and push this line of research forward.…”

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Corruption Is Bad News for a Free Press: Reassessing the Relationship Between Media Freedom and Corruption

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Antenangeli

2017

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. In the following analysis, we investigate the determinants of government efforts to censor media. We develop and test a new theory that argues executive-level corruption influences when governments are more likely to attempt media censorship. After modeling the media-government dynamic in game form, we utilize the new Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset to empirically test this relationship on both traditional media (print and broadcast) and new media (Internet). Using panel, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression with a lagged dependent variable and country fixed effects, we examine the relationship from 1960 to 2015 for traditional media and from 1993 to 2015 for new media. The results suggest that as governments become more corrupt, governmental efforts to censor both forms of media are likely to increase. We further examine the relationship among different world regions and regime types; we find overall confirmation of our hypothesis.

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“…The campaign was started in 2013 by two Argentinian film script coaches promoting their workshops, who created and posted a series of memes to their Facebook page 'Series y punto' ('Series and nothing else'). The posters and memes yielded more than 6000 shares, 1000 likes and 330 comments, mainly during 2013-15 -the last years of Kirchner's populist, anti-press government (Waisbord and Amado 2017;Stein and Kellam 2014;Richardson 2009). This popularity and visibility fostered the later creation of the Twitter hashtag #CFKhaleesi, a word play of the acronym of Kirchner's name (Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) and the character's role of Queen (Khaleesi).…”

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From the books to the screens, to the memes and beyond: Fans’ notions of Game of Thrones as an adaptation

García-Rapp

2021

International Journal of Media &Amp; Cultural Politics

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Parting from the awareness that not all consumers of US media are located within the geographical and linguistic context of the United States, this article contributes to media sociology with an approximation to the fandom of transnationally popular texts. Empirical findings presented here draw from a broader qualitative study on the reception of the series Game of Thrones (GoT) by 21 viewers from Argentina, Spain and Germany. Here I build on participants’ responses to both the original novels by George R.R. Martin and the series adaptation by HBO as distinctive media texts to explore notions of authorship, adaptation and cultural legitimacy. Given the polysemic, intertextual quality of contemporary’s memetic culture, I also discuss a case of digital re-appropriation of GoT’s characters within

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Programming Presidential Agendas: Partisan and Media Environments That Lead Presidents to Fight Crime and Corruption

Cited by 9 publications

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Corruption Is Bad News for a Free Press: Reassessing the Relationship Between Media Freedom and Corruption

From the books to the screens, to the memes and beyond: Fans’ notions of Game of Thrones as an adaptation

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