"En promedio, la confianza en los medios es evidente en la región. Sin embargo, muchos ciudadanos siguen distantes. Para explicar los distintos niveles de confianza, este trabajo se concentra en un conjunto de indicadores de conciencia sobre la política. Es interesante notar que existen diferencia ... s sistemáticas en cómo las distintas dimensiones de la conciencia sobre la política se relacionan con la confianza en los medios." (Resumen ejecutivo) more

"Does USAID’s democracy promotion program work? Although some prior studies have examined specific projects in individual countries, no prior effort has studied the question on a world-wide basis, and no prior study has encompassed the entire post Cold-War period. [...] In the first phase of that ... research, we found that the answer to that question was “yes.” That is, on average, in the period 1990-2003, USAID’s investments in democracy promotion produced significant increases in the national level of democracy as measured by Freedom House and Polity IV indicators. [...] The current report presents the results of the second phase of the project “Cross-National Research on USAID’s Democracy and Governance Programs.” [...] In the current effort, the data set is extended from 14 years to cover 15 years (1990-2004) and 165 countries, yielding 2,416 observations (country-years). [...] USAID civil society and media assistance have a significant positive impact directly on their respective sectors, and USAID human rights assistance has a significant negative impact on the human rights outcome." (Executive summary, page 2, page 5) more