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🚨New article!🚨 Very happy to share the link to the article that Pippa Morgan and I have just published in International Studies Quarterly 🔗academic.oup.com/isq/article/69… Feel free to contact me if you do not have access.

#OpenAccess - Introducing Career Transition Data on Elites in North Korea - cup.org/3Dy22En - Esther E. Song (Universitetet i Bergen), Jacob Reidhead (National Chengchi University | 國立政治大學) & Jeongsue Park #FirstView

From our new issue: "Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia" by David Szakonyi. #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Update your reference list! The global dataset on #education by Knutsen, Philipp Lutscher, and myself has landed in an issue in CPS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Just published on APSR First View: "Voting in Authoritarian Elections" by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas Pepinsky. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A thread introducing my book ‘China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization’ Cambridge University Press (2024) (1/10) 🧵

Constitutional Court of South Korea now announcing the decision on the dismissal of impeached president Yoon. So far — it sounds Yoon will be dismissed.

After years of doubt, drafts, and disbelief, my first—and likely last—book is finally out. It’s about how entertainment media shapes American politics. If you preorder (a.co/d/ctGUWkZ), I’d love to send a small token of thanks: forms.gle/1YrkYX2t2nPCTg…

Finally out with an official volume number! Kim, Sung Eun, Rebecca L. Perlman, and Grace Zeng. 2025. “ The politics of rejection: Explaining Chinese import refusals.” American Journal of Political Science 69 (2): 438–454. doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

🚨 @HKU's Department of Politics and Public Administration is hiring a Lecturer in International Relations. All IR areas welcome. 3-year post. Please help share. Thank you! Review of applications begins 5 May. Details: jobs.hku.hk/en/job/531876/… #PSJMinfo #PolSciJobs #IRjobs

My article, "Political Opportunity Structure Conditions the Legacy of Political Violence," is now online in the Journal of Conflict Resolution! After 8 years of data collection and coding, I am thrilled that this article is finally out! UNLV PoliSci UNLV journals.sagepub.com/eprint/8AHTD5E…

Our book on China’s Imperial Examination System (Keju, 科举) is out! Open Access! Gonna write a short post about it later.

"Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaigns have come full circle in the PLA. First he hunted his predecessors’ appointees. Now his own generals are falling." —Eliot Chen in The Wire China

Our article on legislative cooptation and opposition in the Kuwait National Assembly is finally out at British Jnl Poli Sci! Check out the quoted thread for a discussion of our key findings. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

Excited to share our new paper "Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and American Reputation," coauthored with Sung Eun Kim (Sung Eun Kim), Jong Hee Park (Jong Hee Park), & Inbok Rhee (Inbok Rhee). Now British Jnl Poli Sci Link: doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

New paper➡️“Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China.”Elizabeth Plantan and I reveal how China’s Party-State controls research and how that affected the landscape of social science scholarship since 1985. Research is disappearing. 1/7 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Excited to share our new AJPS paper! We analyze 5M+ Douyin videos from 18K+ regime-affiliated accounts and show how propaganda is now produced and spread through a decentralized model on social media. Four years of work with an incredible team: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

South Korea's next president should adopt a new inter-Korean policy that reflects both changed realities in North Korea - and South Korea's democratic strength. New piece out with Journal of Democracy:

After 6 long yrs, I'm elated to see our paper w/ Antonella Bandiera & Horacio Larreguy on family ties, social control, & authoritarian distribution to elites in 🇵🇾 published in American Political Science Review. As Horacio said, a rewarding experience that began casually at NEWEPS-NYU cambridge.org/core/journals/…

cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🚨 Super excited to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review American Political Science Review Quick thread below🧵