The Correlates of Media Freedom: An Introduction of the Global Media Freedom Dataset

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 02 Dec 2015 English Publisher:Cambridge University Press (CUP)Journal:Political Science Research and Methods, volume 5, pages 179-188 (issn: 2049-8470, eissn: 2049-8489,

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Authors: Jenifer Whitten-Woodring; Douglas A. Van Belle;

doi: 10.1017/psrm.2015.68

The Correlates of Media Freedom: An Introduction of the Global Media Freedom Dataset

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Media freedom has motivated substantial political activism, yet there are surprising gaps in the related academic literature, in part because of a lack of historic and consistent data. We introduce the newly expanded Global Media Freedom Dataset, which includes 196 countries from 1948 to 2012, and demonstrate how it can be used to test previous hypotheses and assumptions about the correlates of media freedom.

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