GOVT 81.29 Persuasion and Propaganda: Information Control in Autocracies and Democracies

This comparative politics course looks at government strategies of information control — namely propaganda and censorship. For each of these topics we consider three main things: the underlying theory of a strategy of information control (when and why to use it), some particular cases and circumstances under which it is used, drawing on global examples, and how effective it actually is at accomplishing a regime’s goals. Though much of the literature focuses on Russia and China as two regimes with large censorship and propaganda arms, the course also draws on cases from around the world, in a mix of democracies and autocracies.

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Government