Replication data for: Sometimes less is more: Censorship, news falsification, and disapproval in 1989 East Germany
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| Title: | Replication data for: Sometimes less is more: Censorship, news falsification, and disapproval in 1989 East Germany |
| Date: | 25 November 2019 |
| Creator: |
Gläßel, Christian  ORCID: 0000-0002-0041-3855 ; Martin, Paula
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| Divisions: | Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > SFB 884 Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences- CDSS (Social Sciences) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES School of Social Sciences > Political Scinece, International Relations (Carey 2010-) |
| DDC Classification: |
320 Political science |
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| Abstract: | Does more media censorship imply more regime stability? We argue that censorship may cause mass disapproval for censoring regimes. In particular, we expect that censorship backfires when citizens can falsify media content through alternative sources of information. We empirically test our theoretical argument in an autocratic regime---the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Results demonstrate how exposed state censorship on the country's emigration crisis fueled outrage in the weeks before the 1989 revolution. Combining original weekly approval surveys on GDR state television and daily content data of West German news programs with a quasi-experimental research design, we show that recipients disapproved of censorship if they were able to detect misinformation through conflicting reports on Western television. Our findings have important implications for the study of censoring systems in contemporary autocracies, external democracy promotion, and campaigns aimed at undermining trust in traditional journalism. (2019-10-21) (English) |
| External Identifier for Data: | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AZFHYN |
| URL: | https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/742/ |
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| Access (Controlled): | Only Metadata |
| License (Controlled): | No license information available, not specified, or non-standard license |
| Related Publication(s) in MADOC: | Gläßel, Christian und Paula, Katrin (2020), Sometimes less is more: Censorship, news falsification, and disapproval in 1989 East Germany |
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| Notes: | This dataset underwent an independent verification process that replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of code. The verification process was carried out by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The associated article has been awarded Open Materials and Open Data Badges. Learn more about the Open Practice Badges from the Center for Open Science. |
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| Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2026 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2026 09:14 |
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