Haifeng Huang
@hhuang.bsky.social
Information, opinion, and equilibrium. hhuang.org. “as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded.”
Next week, I'll be teaching my Advanced Survey Design class. Sign-up details below. instats.org/seminar/adva...
Advanced Survey Design - Livestreamed Research Training | Instats
PhD-level seminar on Advanced Survey Design with Adam Berinsky . Live Q&A plus on‑demand access. Join via your university’s Instats membership or enroll directly.
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⚽📚 The Ultimate World Cup Research Thread I've set up a little automated thread: every day of the 2026 World Cup (11 Jun–19 Jul) it shares one study on what football does to society: politics, economics, migration, health, crime & more. One paper a day. Kickoff below 👇
American pro-democracy messaging in China works as a shield, not a sword finds @hhuang.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
American pro-democracy messaging in China works as a shield, not a sword | LSE United States Politics and Policy
Democracy promotion through messaging is unlikely to convince people living in confident, fast-growing non-democracies.
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Does promoting democracy to the public of a rising authoritarian power work? In a new paper in Perspectives on Politics, I test it using the US Embassy in China's pro-democracy posts on Chinese social media, using two survey experiments in 2018 and 2021. Results are sobering and counter-intuitive
Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 2mo agoNOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The Sound of Silence: #Championing #Democracy in an #Authoritarian #Society By @hhuang.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...
寂静的声音：美国使馆对华公共外交是否有效 (open access)
The Sound of Silence: Championing Democracy in an Authoritarian Society | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Sound of Silence: Championing Democracy in an Authoritarian Society
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Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 2mo agoNOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! The Sound of Silence: #Championing #Democracy in an #Authoritarian #Society By @hhuang.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...
#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - The Sound of Silence: Championing Democracy in an Authoritarian Society - https://cup.org/49p4Xfq - @hhuang.bsky.social #FirstView
Honored to participate in this great workshop hosted by @rsenninger.bsky.social. Learned a lot from his team’s phenomenal research and other scholars’ excellent work on the topic of information from abroad.
Roman Senninger@rsenninger.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur workshop closes with an amazing keynote by @hhuang.bsky.social, bringing together more than a decade of survey and experimental research in China to show how international information shapes domestic political attitudes.
The 'Information from Abroad' workshop starts today. @aarhusbss.bsky.social Glad to bring together a great group of researchers working on how citizens and elites respond to foreign signals (especially relevant amid war, tariffs, and election interference). Grateful for support @carlsbergfondet.dk
New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...
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I'm teaching a few survey research courses live and online. First, a free one hour seminar. Feb 20 instats.org/seminar/surv... Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro Surveys (Feb 26-27): instats.org/seminar/intr... -Advanced Surveys (March 5-6): instats.org/seminar/adva...
We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting! 🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized 🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)
How do people in a rising power view their country's global standing? My new paper in @iojournal.bsky.social finds significant national overconfidence in China—and shows that factual misperceptions can be corrected and triumphalism mitigated #Overconfidence #NationalImage #Correction #厉害了我的国 #大不自多
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 9mo ago#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Reckoning with Reality: Correcting National Overconfidence in a Rising Power - https://cup.org/3LQ3LIZ - @hhuang.bsky.social #FirstView
#OpenAccess from @iojournal.bsky.social - Reckoning with Reality: Correcting National Overconfidence in a Rising Power - https://cup.org/3LQ3LIZ - @hhuang.bsky.social #FirstView