Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205001 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/19/031
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
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 highincome countries. Our lowest point estimates indicate that a one-standard deviation (about 18 percentage point) increase in Facebook penetration is associated with about 8-point (on a scale of 0-100) increase for the world sample and over 11 points improvement for low-income countries.
Subjects: 
Democracy
Information
Facebook
Internet
Social Media
JEL: 
D72
D83
O1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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