For more than a decade, the Chinese government has been on a mission to reshape the
global news environment. It has invested heavily in several platforms to communicate its …

Public discourse under authoritarian rule is not monolithic. Yet how popular rhetoric
engages with the hegemonic rhetoric in the same discursive space remains understudied …

Professional and liberal-oriented news media in Hong Kong have been under severe
political pressure since the establishment of the National Security Law in 2020. Journalists …

This study argues that a generalized attitude about government performance provides
significant structure to citizens' political opinions in China. However, there does not appear …

Drawing on evidence from semistructured interviews and an original survey, this article
examines the policy influence of Provincial People's Congress deputies and reveals how …

Social scientists have long observed that focal points enable citizens to coordinate collective
action. For antiregime protests in autocracies, however, focal points also enable repressive …

This article investigates the impact of supervision intensity on stock price crash risk (SPCR)
in China. A firm's decision to hide bad news lies in the trade-off between the benefits of …

The adoption of social media platforms by news organizations invariably coincides with
transformations in the production, expression, and acceptance of news as public knowledge …

There is a strong ongoing debate about the impact of trust and political knowledge on
institutionalized political participation. Based on social exchange theory, this study examines …

Why and how does critical reporting persist at the local level in China despite state media
control, a hallmark of authoritarian rule? Synthesizing ethnographic observation, interviews …