Media, Development, and Institutional Change

by Christopher J. Coyne and Peter T. Leeson

Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development. The book explores how media can constrain government, how governments manipulate media to entrench their power, and how private and public media ownership affects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847204783
• ISBN13: 9781847204783
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages