Does the gender and sexual identity shape public support for prospective judges? In POQ, Stone & Yang find that Americans across all partisan backgrounds penalize LGBTQ judicial nominees, with transgender nominees facing the largest penalties. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

How do everyday people in authoritarian regimes think about politics? And how do the public's attitudes shape the way autocrats govern? Tony Zirui Yang and I have a new chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics that reviews academic research on these questions: doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Public Opinion in Authoritarian Regimes

AbstractDespite lacking competitive elections and strong protections for political freedoms, politics in authoritarian regimes is still influenced by the o

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Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

🚨‼️🏆📣 I’m chairing the Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award in Political Communication committee. The award recognizes the best dissertation successfully defended in 2025. Please nominate your students and forward this call to colleagues working in political communication.

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions@polcomm.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee. 🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria: politicalcommunication.org/awards/

I know extreme cases got publicized a lot. But as someone with an unprivileged passport (though important enough that they still want us), visiting Europe as a tourist is significantly more painful than visiting the US in every possible way.

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

"Normalization of Censorship: Evidence from China" by Tony Zirui Yang. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Equally concerning as the headlines about censorship is the multiple conversations I had recently about self-censoring our research due to political climate. It’s a tricky question with no easy answer. But perhaps we are not real autocracies yet, and we play a part in preventing that from happening.

Power move! Influenced by multiple factors and in response to multiple forces, including the political. #highered news.emory.edu/features/202...

Honored to receive this year’s Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award in Political Communication @polcomm.bsky.social. Grateful to everyone who supported me along this incredible journey.

🚨 Call for Papers: 2026 WPSA Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics 🚨 Jun Sudduth, @paulschuler.bsky.social, and I are excited to see y’all in San Diego! We welcome formal and empirical papers on a broad range of topics. 📌 Apply here. Share with colleagues & students: forms.gle/Dv2SBEduFxSh...

💘Can authoritarian propaganda cultivate support and deter protest during “normal” times? ➡️ @tzyang.bsky.social & @zhuhs.bsky.social find that hard propaganda reinforces support for protest, while soft propaganda loses credibility www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

🚨📣 Our paper titled 🪢👅 analyzing the limits of China’s propaganda during the COVID chaos in late 2022 is finally out @psrm.bsky.social !!!

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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. @psrm.bsky.social

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

UK voters are making my decision to move back to the US a lot less painful.

Since day 1 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, I’ve been plotting a workshop on the frontiers of authoritarian politics. The world, helpfully, has only gotten more authoritarian, making it more relevant by the day. Big thanks to @benansell.bsky.social and all participants who made it a huge success!

Cool to see my next book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics co-authored w/ Alex Cooley as one of "The Most Anticipated Books of 2025" in @foreignpolicy.com

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🚨 Super excited to have @tzyang.bsky.social presenting his research this Thursday! He and M. Tavits introduce Binary Gender ID strength (BGIS) as an explanation for anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice with cool experiments. 🏳️‍🌈 Don't miss it!

Queer Politics Webinar@queerseminar.bsky.social · 2y ago

🏳️‍🌈 Be sure to join us this Thursday for our March webinar with @tzyang.bsky.social! 👉 Tony will present his amazing work showing how binary gender identity strength increases prejudice towards LGBTQ+ individuals. 📆 Don't miss it!

🏳️‍🌈 Be sure to join us this Thursday for our March webinar with @tzyang.bsky.social! 👉 Tony will present his amazing work showing how binary gender identity strength increases prejudice towards LGBTQ+ individuals. 📆 Don't miss it!

“Trump Saves the Liberals” I can’t wait to see this title 🥶.

A bright spot on the horizon amid all the bleak news this week. Thanks to all the great people at Nuffield College!

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children*

Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre

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Tried Deepseek for the first time. Idk… feels like censorship to me… 🤷🤷‍♀️🤷🏽‍♂️

lol… my dad starts complaining about all the TikTok refugees on RedNote flooding the Chinese content he follows. Novel form of anti-immigration sentiment in the social media era 😂😂😂

Xiaohongshu is also one of the best apps in China for Chinese-language convos about feminism.

Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅@zeyiyang.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know I will write about Xiaohongshu/RedNote one day, but I didn’t expect it to be today: It’s #1 downloaded app in the US today. Why? Because the TikTok ban is pushing users to join another Chinese app out of spite. Also, they call themselves the “TikTok refugees.” www.wired.com/story/red-no...

XHS/RedNote is the gay heaven of Chinese social media 🥰🏳️‍🌈

Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅@zeyiyang.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know I will write about Xiaohongshu/RedNote one day, but I didn’t expect it to be today: It’s #1 downloaded app in the US today. Why? Because the TikTok ban is pushing users to join another Chinese app out of spite. Also, they call themselves the “TikTok refugees.” www.wired.com/story/red-no...

My book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” has recently come out in the US. If you're interested, in this thread I’ll link different ways of learning about the book and its argument (I’ll keep adding if more come out). First, here is the link to the book: academic.oup.com/book/57946

A good news day :) "The Rainbow Vote" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ is now under contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social Building on observational data & six original experiments, the book explores & explains the distinctiveness of queer voters in Europe and demonstrates how this has both social & political consequences

Participatory Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social by Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @tzyang.bsky.social

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New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵