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The Correlates of Media Freedom: An Introduction of the Global Media Freedom Dataset*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2015

Jenifer Whitten-Woodring  and
Douglas A. Van Belle
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Abstract

Media freedom has motivated substantial political activism, yet there are surprising gaps in the related academic literature, in part because of a lack of historic and consistent data. We introduce the newly expanded Global Media Freedom Dataset, which includes 196 countries from 1948 to 2012, and demonstrate how it can be used to test previous hypotheses and assumptions about the correlates of media freedom.

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Political Science Research and Methods , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 179 - 188
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© The European Political Science Association 2015 

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Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Political Science, Dugan Hall, 201 E, 883 Broadway Street, Lowell, MA 01854-3040 USA (jenifer_whittenwoodring@uml.edu). Douglas A. Van Belle, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, 83 Fairlie Terrace, Room 307, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand (douglas.vanbelle@vuw.ac.nz). The authors wish to thank the associates at University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Women and Work for their thoughtful suggestions and the editors and two anonymous reviewers at Political Science Research and Methods for their helpful comments. Any mistakes are completely authors’ own. To view supplementary material for this article, please visit http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2015.68

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