MORE CONCENTRATION OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP MEANS LESS DEMOCRACY? TESTING ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VARIABLES
Abstract
The literature in Political Science suggests that the access to alternative sources
of information is essential in democracies. In theory, we expect that democratic
countries have decentralized Media ownership. Therefore, we ask: is it possible
to check – empirically – the existence of a negative correlation between
concentrated Media ownership and democracy index? To answer this question, we
used statistical methods, specially descriptive statistics and correlation test. The
experiment confirmed the theoretical prediction: decentralized Media ownership
is strongly associated with democratic countries.
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