Oliver Lang
My research examines the organizational bases of information control and propaganda production under authoritarian rule. I study media outlets tasked with producing propaganda, state agencies exerting pressure on those outlets, and the interplay of economic imperatives and state coercion in autocratic media markets.
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Bio
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a visiting researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. My work spans comparative politics, political communication, and political economy.
My research is centered around three questions: How do autocratic regimes curtail the flow of information necessary for evaluating government performance? How do the institutions of autocratic governance constrain propaganda content? How does competition between media outlets shape coverage when markets are subject to government intervention?
Before coming to Madison, I completed my undergraduate studies in International and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington.