Bribery patterns reveal that media control outweighed official loyalty in sustaining an authoritarian regime

Evidence

The payment schedule displays a perverse logic. It shows that, at least in Montesinos’s estimation, media mattered more than public officials. By the late 1990s, the threat that popular mobilization against the regime would spring from television coverage looked even more salient than the likelihood that officials would defect. In the event, a television broadcast of a video recording a bribe did start the cascade that sent Fujimori into exile and put Montesinos in jail. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 70

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 70
• XREF: connects to: Bribery rather than repression was the chief tool for controlling media and legislators — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 63; Authoritarian regime stability ultimately rests on informal patronage networks brokered by ethnic elites — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 22; Media monopoly over commissioning power undermines democratic self-government — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1571

Broader Connections

• Media monopoly over commissioning power undermines democratic self-government #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1571
• Authoritarian regime stability ultimately rests on informal patronage networks brokered by ethnic elites #complicates (0.75) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 22