Title Propaganda in autocracies : institutions, information, and the politics of belief / Erin Baggott Carter, Brett L. Carter

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 526 pages) : illustrations Series Political economy of institutions and decisions Political economy of institutions and decisions. Contents Persuasion and domination -- A theory of autocratic propaganda -- A global dataset of autocratic propaganda -- The politics of pro-regime propaganda -- Narrating the domestic -- Narrating the world -- Threatening citizens with repression -- The propagandist's dilemma -- Memory and forgetting -- Propaganda and protest Summary "A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly believe otherwise, a dictator's power is anything but, as the Soviet Union's collapse revealed. This conviction -- that power rests ultimately on citizens' beliefs -- compels the world's autocrats to invest in sophisticated propaganda. This study draws on the first global data set of autocratic propaganda, encompassing nearly eight million newspaper articles from fifty-nine countries in six languages. The authors document dramatic variation in propaganda across autocracies: in coverage of the regime and its opponents, in narratives about domestic and international life, in the threats of violence issued to citizens, and in the domestic events that shape it. The book explains why Russian President Vladimir uses Donald Trump as a propaganda tool and why Chinese state propaganda is more effusive than any point since the Cultural Revolution"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Erin Baggott Carter is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, a Hoover fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a nonresident scholar at University of California San Diego's 21st Century China Center. Brett L. Carter is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution Print version record Subject Propaganda. Dictatorship. Press and propaganda. Press and politics. dictatorships. Dictatorship Press and politics Press and propaganda Propaganda Form Electronic book Author Carter, Brett L., 1979- author. ISBN 9781009271226 1009271229 9781009271257 1009271253

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