Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300111 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Problems of Post-Communism [ISSN:] 1557-783X [Volume:] 70 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Taylor & Francis [Place:] London [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 241-252
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis, London
Abstract: 
This article investigates two accounts of political propaganda in autocratic regimes. One argues that propaganda’s content does not matter substantively and that propaganda is mostly a signal of the regime’s overwhelming power over citizens. A second argues that propaganda is substantively meaningful: autocrats may communicate strategically either by attracting attention through highlighting the regime’s strengths or by distracting attention away from the regime’s malperformance. Using nearly 135,000 North Korean state-generated news articles between 1997 and 2018 we show that North Korea systematically adjusted its communication strategies following the leadership transfer from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un.
Subjects: 
Authoritarianism
Autocracy
North Korea
Text-as-data
Propaganda
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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