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Does social media promote democracy? Some empirical evidence

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This study explores the relationship between social media and democracy in a cross- section of over 125 countries around the world. We find the evidence of a strong, positive correlation between Facebook penetration (a proxy for social media) and democracy. We further show that the correlation between social media and democracy is stronger for low-income countries than highincome countries. Our lowest point estimates indicate that a one-standard deviation (about 18 percentage point) increase in Facebook penetration is associated with about 8-point (on a scale of 0-100) increase for the world sample and over 11 points improvement for low-income countries.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: AGDI Working Paper ; No. WP/19/031

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Thema
Democracy
Information
Facebook
Internet
Social Media

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jha, Chandan Kumar
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
(wo)
Yaoundé
(wann)
2019

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Jha, Chandan Kumar
  • Kodila-Tedika, Oasis
  • African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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