%0 Book %1 lievrouw2006hnm %A Lievrouw, L.A. %A Livingstone, S.M. %D 2006 %I Sage Publications %K -freedom Pressefreiheit bureaucracy censorship medgov media new_media non-democratic_politics %T Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs %U http://www.brookings.edu/global/gi2006_guriev.pdf %X How can a non-democratic ruler provide proper incentives for state bureaucracy? In the absense of competitive elections and separation of powers, the ruler has to gather information either from a centralized agency such as a secret service or a decentralized source such as media. The danger of using a secret service is that it can collude with bureaucrats; overcoming collusion is costly. Free media aggregate information and thus constrain bureaucrats, but might also help citizens to coordinate on actions against the incumbent. We endogenize the ruler?s choice in a dynamic model to argue that free media are less likely to emerge in resource-rich economies where the ruler is less interested in providing incentives to his subordinates. We show that this prediction is consistent with both cross-section and panel data.

@book{lievrouw2006hnm, abstract = {How can a non-democratic ruler provide proper incentives for state bureaucracy? In the absense of competitive elections and separation of powers, the ruler has to gather information either from a centralized agency such as a secret service or a decentralized source such as media. The danger of using a secret service is that it can collude with bureaucrats; overcoming collusion is costly. Free media aggregate information and thus constrain bureaucrats, but might also help citizens to coordinate on actions against the incumbent. We endogenize the ruler?s choice in a dynamic model to argue that free media are less likely to emerge in resource-rich economies where the ruler is less interested in providing incentives to his subordinates. We show that this prediction is consistent with both cross-section and panel data.}, added-at = {2008-03-25T06:53:52.000+0100}, author = {Lievrouw, L.A. and Livingstone, S.M.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/264d2e692a16d14b11a9bddd83097770f/acf}, description = {medgov}, interhash = {ee701c3fda104837b9da6d811f047f72}, intrahash = {64d2e692a16d14b11a9bddd83097770f}, keywords = {-freedom Pressefreiheit bureaucracy censorship medgov media new_media non-democratic_politics}, publisher = {Sage Publications}, timestamp = {2008-04-01T10:40:51.000+0200}, title = {{Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs}}, url = {http://www.brookings.edu/global/gi2006_guriev.pdf}, year = 2006 }