Rosemary Armao discussed her CIMA report, Covering Corruption: The Difficulties of Trying to Make a Difference, which examines the impact of reporting about the topic on the incidence of corruption, asking whether and how media have an effect in bringing about reform and better governance.

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“Competitive authoritarianism”—a type of regime that combines competitive elections with serious violations of democratic procedures—has proliferated during the post-Cold War era. Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way explored these trends and discussed the questions that they raise.

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John Burgess discussed his new CIMA report, Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure, which examines the strengths and shortcomings of media freedom indexes-in particular IREX's Media Sustainability Index, Freedom House's Freedom of the Press, and Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index- and offers recommendations to improve these and other studies.

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