Assistant Professor of Political Science @NYUAbuDhabi | PhD @WUSTLPoliSci | Authoritarian Politics, Political Communication, and Public Diplomacy
St Louis, MO
Joined November 2018
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📢 We're hiring at @NYUShanghai!
Open-rank, tenured/tenure-track Political Science position, with a focus on China, broadly conceived. All subfields and empirical approaches welcome!
📅 Deadline: Nov 30, 2026
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/196000
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📊 Based on my journal-submission log since Dec. 2013, I made this figure showing how often manuscripts are rejected—and how long it takes—before (conditional) acceptance. I hope it helps PhD students and junior scholars see the real world of publishing in political science. 💪📚
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New paper at AJPS: "The limits of AI for authoritarian control." The more repression there is, the less information exists in AI's training data, and the worse the AI performs. Ironically, data from democracies can help improve repressive AI.
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Our Spring 2026 schedule is out!
Remember to join our mailing list to join us for any or all of these great sessions!
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This was a difficult paper to publish, but I'm glad it is now out at Research & Politics, joint with @jenjpan. 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/205316802514…
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Join us next week!
@JongyoonBaik (CUHK-SZ), @haohanch (HKU), and Yiqiang Wang (HKU) will present their work on Vocal Pitch and Emotions in North Korean TV News.
@AlexDukalskis (@ucdpolitics) and Yeilim Cheong (@Mizzou) will discuss.
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🚨call for proposal🚨Have a paper on Asia + politics+ history? Then consider this!👇👇👇👇
Along with wonderful colleagues @jeanjiyeonhong, @SlaterPolitics, @YuhuaWang5, and Ann C. Lin, we would like to call your attention to the Asian Political History Workshop to be held on May 4– 5, 2026 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Apply here by Jan. 20, 2026. forms.gle/H9zPa6r2H1Kexwo67
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New pub! My first solo-authored paper is online at @polcommjournal . This paper identifies a novel phenomenon, performative propaganda engagement, to understand the impact of digital propaganda on celebrity fans and broader authoritarian publics. More in🧵tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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How far has the credibility revolution actually reshaped the discipline?
In a new working paper w/ @caro_whitetower @william_dinneen & Guy Grossman, we use GPT-4o to code 91,632 articles from 174 political science journals (2003–2023) and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations.
SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/w2… 🧵
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Professor David Carter has published a new article in @IntOrgJournal, the leading international relations journal in political science, focused on the long-term consequences of state-led population displacements, primarily in Afghanistan.
Read more: buff.ly/Du6BOP8
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🚨 To what extent is the American public willing to hold incumbents accountable amid incremental erosion of democracy? What strategic sequence of democratic backsliding may harm voter accountability? I answer these questions in this new paper at @BJPolS.
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My new paper with @jiyoung_ko has just been published at @cps_journal!
We examine why citizens in formerly colonized nations hold starkly varying attitudes--admiration, resentment, or even indifference--towards their former colonizers.
Paper here: lnkd.in/gtirQpS3
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New paper: LLMs are increasingly used to label data in political science. But how reliable are these annotations, and what are the consequences for scientific findings? What are best practices? Some new findings from a large empirical evaluation.
Paper: eddieyang.net/research/llm_a…
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🚨 out at @apsrjournal 🚨
➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️ Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️ Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms
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Our Call for Papers for the Spring 2026 is now open!
Submit your proposal by November 9th using this link: forms.gle/SvZv98ke4QUT7omu9
For more information visit: apsg.work/cfp/
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Associate Professor, Timm Betz, has published an article in the journal @IntOrgJournal that examines why some companies are more successful than others in obtaining privileged treatment by the government.
Read more about the article on our website: buff.ly/jFKmgqr
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WashU Political Science faculty members Margit Tavits, Jacob Montgomery, Christopher Lucas, and former WashU Political Science PhD students Dahjin Kim and Taishi Muraoka have published a new article in the journal Political Science Research and Methods (@PSRMJournal).
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Just published on APSR First View: Causal Panel Analysis under Parallel Trends: Lessons from a Large Reanalysis Study by ALBERT CHIU, XINGCHEN LAN, ZIYI LIU, and YIQING XU cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Just published on APSR First View: Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites by ANTONELLA BANDIERA, HORACIO LARREGUY (@HLarreguy), and JORGE MANGONNET (@jmangonnet) cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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In December 2022, Chinese official propaganda on COVID policy made a sharp U-turn. How did these contradictory messages from the policy shift impact citizens’ perceptions? We find "soft" ones lost persuasiveness while "hard" ones more strongly deterred protests. @PSRMJournal
