英文文献：Does Social Media Promote Democracy? Some Empirical Evidence
英文文献作者：Chandan K. Jha,Oasis Kodila-Tedika
英文文献摘要：
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 high-income 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.