CPO-3403 Lecture 3: Jan 24 Notes
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More importantly, reading relatively positive foreign media content about foreign countries can improve rather than worsen the domestic evaluations of citizens who self-select such content. We argue this is because reputable western media"s reports are generally more realistic than overly rosy information about foreign socioeconomic conditions that popularly circulates in china. Consequently, foreign media may have a corrective function and enhance regime stability in an authoritarian country by making regime critics less critical. Along the way the article also introduces a new variant of the patient preference trial design that integrates self-selection and random assignment of treatments in a way useful for studying information effects. substantive and methodological contributions. First, by studying how citizens selectively access different kinds of foreign media content, it will naturally contribute to the literature on information exposure and motivated learning. Second, this research can contribute to our understanding of the effects of foreign media in authoritarian countries.
