Political Science

In “When Do Private Actors Engage in Censorship? Evidence From a Correspondence Experiment with Russian Private Media Firms,” Quintin Beazer, Ph.D., Holger Kern, Ph.D., and co-authors investigate the censorship behavior of private media firms.

The article, published in the British Journal of Political Science, was co-authored alongside Charles Crabtree, Ph.D., of Dartmouth College, and Christopher J. Farris, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan. 

Using a correspondence experiment with Russian private media firms, the authors find that Russian private media firms censor advertisements with calls for political collective action or anti-regime messages. Furthermore, they find that these media firms also censor advertisements containing calls for non-political collective action. 

Hans J.G. Hassell, Ph.D. – an Associate Professor of Political Science at FSU – was the lead author on the article “Newsroom Ideological Diversity and the Ideological Sorting of Journalists” published in Political Research Quarterly with Matthew R. Miles, of Brigham Young University – Idaho; and Breanna Morecraft, a former FSU undergraduate and law student at FSU’s College of Law.