Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa

by Troyansky and Meghan Sobel Cohen

Media scholars generally suggest that as people gain access to mass media content, they increasingly support democracy and reject authoritarian rule. Much of the scholarship classifying global media systems has overlooked the world's most developing nations, and among those that have included developing nations, there exists a misguided premise that nations develop in a linear fashion: from non-democracy to democracy, and from a restricted press to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197634214
• ISBN13: 9780197634219
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"