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One argues that propaganda\u2019s content does not matter substantively and that propaganda is mostly a signal of the regime\u2019s overwhelming power over citizens. A second argues that propaganda is substantively meaningful: autocrats may communicate strategically either by attracting attention through highlighting the regime\u2019s strengths or by distracting attention away from the regime\u2019s malperformance. Using nearly 135,000 North Korean state-generated news articles between 1997 and 2018 we show that North Korea systematically adjusted its communication strategies following the leadership transfer from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10758216.2021.2012199\">Access to this publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in: Problems of Post-Communism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why It Matters What Autocrats Say: Assessing Competing Theories of Propaganda - EDP Netzwerk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"in: Problems of Post-Communism This article investigates two accounts of political propaganda in autocratic regimes. 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