Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China

Zusammenfassung Stockmann argues that the consequences of introducing market forces to the media depend on the institutional design of the state. In one-party regimes, market-based media promote regime stability rather than destabilizing authoritarianism or bringing about democracy. This book links censorship with patterns of media consumption and the media's effects on public opinion.

Autorentext

Daniela Stockmann is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an M.A. in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Her research on political communication and public opinion in China has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, The China Quarterly, and the Chinese Journal of Communication, among others. Her 2006 conference paper on the Chinese media and public opinion received an award in Political Communication from the American Political Science Association.

Inhalt

Part I. Introduction: 1. Propaganda for sale; 2. Marketized media as instruments of regime stability and change; 3. Types of newspapers in China; Part II. Media Marketization and the Production of News: 4. Boundaries for news reporting on labor law and the United States; 5. Selection and the tone of news stories; 6. Discursive space in Chinese media; Part III. Media Marketization and Media Credibility: 7. Media credibility and media branding; 8. Newspaper consumption; 9. Media effects on public opinion; 10. Media citizenship in China; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. China and other authoritarian states; 12. Responsive authoritarianism in China; Appendix A. Notes on data and research design; Appendix B. Notes on case selection and generalizability; Appendix C. Experimental treatments; Appendix D. Data coding, statistical models, and robustness test results; Appendix E. Additional tables and figures.