The Internet and Political Protest in Autocracies

ISBN-13: 9780190918309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Nils B. Weidmann; Espen Geelmuyden Rd

Recenzje

Weidmann and Rød present an original, compelling, and nuanced explanation of when the Internet can affect liberalization and when it cannot. Cutting-edge statistical analyses of a new dataset and brilliant graphical presentations are employed to counter the over-optimistic claim that the Internet is an overwhelming force of political transformation. It's much more complicated. Alas, autocracies that can harbor the power of social media can expand their repressive capacities to maintain control and limit the occurrence of protest. Liberalization only occurs when on-going protest is sustained beyond the early phases of the conflict.

O autorze

Nils B. Weidmann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz. He was a post-doctoral researcher in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (2009-2010) and the Jackson Institute at Yale University (2010-2011), and has held a Marie Curie fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (2011-2012). Espen Geelmuyden Rød is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Communication, Networks and Contention Research Group, University of Konstanz and a Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).