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Does social media promote democracy? Some empirical evidence
Institution:1. Madden School of Business, Le Moyne College, 1419 Salt Springs Road, Syracuse, NY 13214, USA;2. Department of Economics, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo;1. CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto and Ufficio Studi Compagnia, San Paolo, Italy;2. University of Turin, Dep. of Economics and Statistics, Turin, Italy;3. University of Insubria, Dep. of Economics, Varese, Italy;4. ISER University of Essex, United Kingdom, CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy and Dondena-University Bocconi, Milan, Italy;1. Université Paris-Est, IRG (EA 2354), UPEC, UPEM, Pôle du Bois de l''Étang, 5 Bd Descartes, Bureau C241A, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée, France;2. EM Normandie Business School, Métis Lab, Paris, France;3. Institut de Recherche en Gestion (EA 2354), Université Paris Est, Créteil, France;4. College of Business Administration, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia;1. Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia;2. Department of Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna, MH 81000, Matara, Sri Lanka;1. CEPN — Université Paris 13 and Sorbonne Paris Cité, France;2. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy;3. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy and IZA – Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
Abstract:This study explores the relationship between social media and democracy in a cross-section of over 125 countries around the world. We find the evidence of a strong, positive correlation between Facebook penetration (a proxy for social media) and democracy. We further show that the correlation between social media and democracy is stronger for low-income countries than high-income countries. Our lowest point estimates indicate that a one-standard deviation (about 18 percentage point) increase in Facebook penetration is associated with an improvement in the democracy index by about 8-point (on a scale of 0–100) for the world sample and over 11 points for the sample of low-income countries.
Keywords:Democracy  Information  Facebook  Internet  Social media
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