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However, the same literature tends to black-box the actual signaling environment itself away. I argue in this work that ignoring the media environment in a country is a mistake being repeated throughout conflict literature. The analysis conducted here is done in a threefold series of tests, each examining a different aspect of a civil war’s life cycle. The first hypothesis tests the violence committed during a conflict by using an OLS regression to examine the correlation between casualties and press freedoms. The second stage uses a survival model to investigate the likelihood of achieving a cessation of hostilities. The final stage looks at the durability of negotiated peace settlements, employing a probit model to look at the likelihood of collapse at different stages of press freedoms. I find varying levels of support for all three of my hypotheses. Taken together, however, my results suggest that there is a link between the press environment and conflict structure.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.**"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["The Influence of State-Run Media on Civil War Severity"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Neiheisel, Jacob","Political Science"],"dc:creator":["Anderson, Collin"],"dc:date":["2019-07-30T15:10:44Z","2019","2019-05-01 14:23:34"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This study investigates the relationship between state-run media and the severity of civil wars. 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