Open Networks, Closed Regimes

Open Networks, Closed Regimes
By:"Shanthi Kalathil","Taylor C. Boas"
Published on 2010 by Carnegie Endowment

As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this conventional wisdom has informed the views of policymakers, business leaders, and media pundits alike. Yet few studies have sought to systematically analyze the exact ways in which Internet use may lay the basis for political change. In O \

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