Anti-Press Violence in Subnational Undemocratic Regimes

Veracruz, Gujarat, and Beyond
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-23037-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication

The global trend of increasing violence against the press has spurred research interest into the questions of where, why, and how communicators are repressed. As a result, scholarship has demonstrating that hybrid regimes - which mix undemocratic and democratic elements - constitute a specifically dangerous and lethal context for these actors. Decentralized countries, in which some subnational political elites have retained authoritarian features, have been identified as the most perilous context for communicators. However, despite the burgeoning interest in illiberal practices and repression on the subnational level, it is still relatively unexplored how and why subnational political elites repress communicators within their multi-level setting. The author argues that communicators in subnational undemocratic regimes who can spread the scope of compromising information beyond subnational boundaries can cause uncertainties for subnational undemocratic regimes. The book explores how the political elites of these regimes repress these communicators in response.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartman, Jos Midas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 3: Research Design and Methodology.- Chapter 4: The Targeting of Journalists in Mexico.- Chapter 5: The Repression of Journalists in Veracruz.- Chapter 6: Boundary-blurring actors in Gujarat.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Jos Bartman is a political scientist specializing in subnational politics, comparative politics and authoritarianism. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works as a research coordinator at Free Press Unlimited, where he investigates and coordinates the investigation into cold murder cases of journalist-killings. By investigating these cases, and by initiating in litigation as a result, he hopes to contribute to the ending of the pervasive impunity that coincides with attacks on the press.