Understanding Journalist Killings
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Why do state authorities murder journalists? We show that the majority of journalists are killed in democracies and present an argument focuses on institutional differences between democratic ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Politics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0022-3816', '1468-2508']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/715172