The Hayek–Friedman hypothesis on the press: is there an association between economic freedom and press freedom?

Bjørnskov, Christian

doi:10.1017/s1744137417000364

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“…This likely reflects the protection free media receive from independent judiciaries". One of several likely transmission mechanisms may indeed be that new governments, coming to power through a coup, are likely to restrict the independence of the judiciary and implement other policies that allow them to restrict press freedom (see Bjørnskov, 2018). Likewise, Kellam and Stein (2016) argue that a president is more likely to introduce constraints on the media, if more political power is concentrated in the executive.…”

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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom

Bjørnskov

Freytag²,

Gutmann

2018

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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom

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Gutmann

2018

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“…One concern may be that democratic transitions are driven by economic development, as Papaioannou and Siourounis (2008a) observe over the 1960-2005 period or Boix (2011) over the 1800-2000 period. Bjørnskov (2018) also reports that improvements in press freedom follow improvements in economic freedom whereas Berggren and Bjørnskov (2019) observe that reforms undermine citizens' support for democracy. However, Boix (2011) also finds that the relationship becomes weaker during the post-war period, which covers our period of study.…”

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A time to throw stones, a time to reap: how long does it take for democratic transitions to improve institutional outcomes?

Méon

Sekkat

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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We study the impact of democratic transitions on institutional outcomes. Using an event study method and a sample of 135 countries over the period 1984–2016, we observe that democratic transitions improve institutional outcomes. The effect appears within 3 years after the transition year. The results are robust to alternative definitions of transitions, alternative codings of pre- and post-transition years, and changing the set of control variables. We also find that both full and partial democratizations improve institutional outcomes. Transitions out of military regimes or communist autocracies do not. The effect of democratization depends on GDP per capita, education, and the regularity of the transition. Finally, the evidence suggests that the effect is particularly clear on the corruption, law and order, and military in politics dimensions of the index.

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“…One study looked at the impact of economic freedom on democratic survival (Boudreaux and Holcombe, 2017) and found that the outcome is positive and somewhat sizable. A different study (Bjørnskov, 2018) explored whether economic freedom aids press freedom (an important component of democracy) and likewise found a positive relationship. When looking at the disaggregated index, the study uncovered that the relationship is wholly driven by market openness (not, for instance, small government or any other component of economic freedom).…”

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What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy

Rutar

2023

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The notion that the world has been witnessing a profound neoliberal transformation since around the 1980s onward is widely accepted in many parts of social science and the humanities. Moreover, the overarching impression is that this transformation has mostly been regrettable in economic, political, and other social terms. At the same time, careful interdisciplinary research recently uncovered that neoliberalism has been notoriously hard to define. Based on that research, this article first clarifies the conceptual confusion surrounding neoliberalism and presents a broad, synthetic institutions-based working definition of it that captures its typical contemporary usages. The article then asks if a systematic empirical assessment of neoliberalism’s social impact over the past decades across the world is even possible. It suggests it is by empirically operationalizing neoliberalism in three distinct, yet potentially overlapping, ways that appear in the literature: first, as a broad set of economic institutions measured by economic freedom indexes; second, as the process of international trade liberalization (itself proxied by import shocks); and third, as shock-therapy type institutional reforms in (parts of) post-communist Europe. Synthesizing the findings of the existing vast research literature, the main conclusion of the article is that neoliberalism’s social impact has been more nuanced than suggested by prevailing discourse.

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The Hayek–Friedman hypothesis on the press: is there an association between economic freedom and press freedom?

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom

Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom

A time to throw stones, a time to reap: how long does it take for democratic transitions to improve institutional outcomes?

What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy

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