Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are
meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity …

Do cultural values enhance financial and subjective well-being (SWB)? Taking a
multidisciplinary approach, we meta-analytically reviewed the field, found it thinly covered …

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for
controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be …

The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2 million people to
surreptitiously insert huge numbers of pseudonymous and other deceptive writings into the …

Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in Economics The global battle among the three
dominant digital powers? the United States, China, and the European Union? is intensifying …

Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the
world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state. Wenfang Tang attempts to …

Abstract Using the Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic dataset
covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of …

In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

The reported role of social media in recent popular uprisings against Arab autocrats has
fueled the notion of 'liberation technology', namely that information and communication …

Why do authoritarian governments engage in propaganda when citizens often know that
their governments are propagandizing and therefore resist or ignore the messages? This …