Elite rhetoric, media professionalism and popular support for media freedoms in Sub-Saharan Africa

IF 0.6 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/14662043.2023.2204738

P. VonDoepp, D. J. Young

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper examines support for media freedoms in Anglophone African countries, focusing on the national and individual-level determinants of such support. Leveraging a unique dataset capturing anti-media rhetoric from political leadership across 15 African countries, we explore whether such rhetoric drives down support for media freedoms. Our findings offer only modest support for this, indicating that only certain types of rhetoric diminish support for media freedoms and, at that, only among executive supporters. By contrast, we find that anti-media rhetoric may actually drive up support. Moreover, we find that higher comparative levels of media professionalism significantly increase support for media freedoms. This suggests that media professionals may have substantial say in patterns of popular support for the media. More generally, our findings point to the need for more research on the impacts of both rhetoric and professionalism on support for the media.

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撒哈拉以南非洲的精英言论、媒体专业精神和大众对媒体自由的支持

本文考察了非洲英语国家对媒体自由的支持，重点关注这种支持的国家和个人层面的决定因素。我们利用收集15个非洲国家政治领导人反媒体言论的独特数据集，探讨这些言论是否会降低对媒体自由的支持。我们的研究结果只提供了适度的支持，表明只有某些类型的言论会减少对媒体自由的支持，而且只在行政支持者中。相比之下，我们发现反媒体言论实际上可能会提高支持率。此外，我们发现较高的媒体专业水平显著增加了对媒体自由的支持。这表明，媒体专业人士在大众对媒体的支持模式上可能有很大的发言权。更一般地说，我们的研究结果表明，需要对修辞和专业精神对媒体支持的影响进行更多的研究。

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COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.70

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期刊介绍： Long established as the leading publication in its field, the journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics contains scholarly articles which both report original research on the politics of Commonwealth countries and relate their findings to issues of general significance for students of comparative politics. The journal also publishes work on the politics of other states where such work is of interest for comparative politics generally or where it enables comparisons to be made with Commonwealth countries.