To explicitly test the theoretical proposition advanced by MSD theory regarding
the relationship between democratic growth and traditional media development in
H1, all countries were divided into two categories (‘‘high’’ and ‘‘low’’) based on their
average level of overall media diffusion over time. The average media diffusion for all
countries across all years was a mean of 17.16 (SD=14.96) newspapers, radios, and
televisions per 100 citizens. This figure was therefore used as the demarcation point
for groups of countries.
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Similarly, countries were also divided into groups of ‘‘high’’
and ‘‘low’’ average sociopolitical instability levels to examine if, as proposed by MSD
theory and H2, increased conflict and change in a social system engendered more
evident media effects. As the mean level of sociopolitical instability was 1125.34 units
on the Banks’ weighted conflict index for all countries over all years (SD=891.49),
this figure was used to divide countries into high and low sociopolitical instability
groupings
To explicitly test the theoretical proposition advanced by MSD theory regardingthe relationship between democratic growth and traditional media development inH1, all countries were divided into two categories (‘‘high’’ and ‘‘low’’) based on theiraverage level of overall media diffusion over time. The average media diffusion for allcountries across all years was a mean of 17.16 (SD=14.96) newspapers, radios, andtelevisions per 100 citizens. This figure was therefore used as the demarcation pointfor groups of countries.1Similarly, countries were also divided into groups of ‘‘high’’and ‘‘low’’ average sociopolitical instability levels to examine if, as proposed by MSDtheory and H2, increased conflict and change in a social system engendered moreevident media effects. As the mean level of sociopolitical instability was 1125.34 unitson the Banks’ weighted conflict index for all countries over all years (SD=891.49),this figure was used to divide countries into high and low sociopolitical instabilitygroupings
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