Wit as a Political Weapon
Satirists and Censors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Freedman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-112 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2012.0051 |
| OpenAlex | W109306775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
Political satire—the mocking of every aspect of the political process—is offensive, acerbic, disrespectful. Its practitioners take particular relish in aiming their fire at the politically powerful. Some of those targeted are not amused and try to censor the satire and its authors. This is especially the case in authoritarian systems, but censorship of political satire also exists in democracies. In this essay I compare the constraints on political satire in authoritarian and democratic systems in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, an era when new mass media and institutional changes brought a vast expansion of political satire as well as increased efforts to suppress it
Authoritarianism · Censorship · Democracy · Economics · Management · Media studies · Offensive · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Literature and Humor Studies · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |