The internet and power in one‐party East Asian states
The Washington QuarterlyPublished 28 July 2002
Nina Hachigian
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This paper argues that one‐party regimes that welcome the Internet are not even more likely to fail than those that attempt to protect themselves from its influence.
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Authoritarian states and illiberal democracies do not all try to maximize their control of the Internet. In fact, one‐party regimes that welcome the Internet are not even more likely to fail than those that attempt to protect themselves from its influence.
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