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Why Resource-poor Dictators Allow Freer Media: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data

Georgy Egorov; Sergei Guriev; Konstantin Sonin · American Political Science Review 103(4), 645–668 · 2009

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Georgy Egorov; Sergei Guriev; Konstantin Sonin
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DOI 10.1017/S0003055409990219

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TheoryEgorov, Guriev and Sonin find, controlling for country fixed effects, that media are less free in oil-rich countries, especially in non-democracies, consistent with their theory that dictators allow freer media when they need it to monitor bureaucrats.