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Aspa 2018 albertus tinyurl.com/y9xzbeey

Media Bias against Foreign Firms as a Veiled Trade Barrier: Evidence from Chinese Newspapers bit.ly/2COKPFM

Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru bit.ly/2QPOkyE

The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance bit.ly/2AdbgSV

For those interested in causal inference, particularly potential outcomes tradition and MHE, I highly recommend the Northwestern causal inference workshop now held jointly with Duke, organized by Bernie Black. I've gone twice. law.duke.edu/conferences/20…

Poli Sci podcasts (mentioned in Facebook discussion): New Books in Political Science: newbooksnetwork.com/category/polit… Science of Politics: niskanencenter.org/blog/the-niska… No Jargon: scholars.org/podcast Party Politics: houstonpublicmedia.org/shows/party-po… The Politics Guys: politicsguys.com 1/n

politically connected firms have a significantly higher debt ratio & face a lower cost of debt #SocSciResearch sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

WSJ Opinion from James Bacchus: #China has legitimate grievances with U.S. trade practices, too. The #WTO often looks askance at American antidumping tariffs wsj.com/articles/ameri… via The Wall Street Journal

Li Keqiang met with World Bank President David Malpass, says cooperation between China and the World Bank almost synchronized with China's reform and opening up chinavitae.com/v/263

The 9 Free Machine Learning Courses from the World-Class Educators datahod.com/free-machine-l…

"CASM: A Deep-Learning Approach for Identifying Collective Action Events with Text and Image Data from Social Media" with Han Zhang in print: jenpan.com/jen_pan/casm.p…. We found >135k protests from 2010-17 in China. Here's the data (posts + events): link: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SS…

22. Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America youtu.be/RtbZesUWMok via YouTube

Why did modern nation-states not emerge in China, which established a centralized bureaucracy 2,000 years ago and was the first country to use a civil service examination to recruit bureaucrats? Please check out my 7-page answer in the APSA CP Newsletter: scholar.harvard.edu/files/yuhuawan…

Public attitudes toward health, pension, & unemployment policies are related to subsequent changes in their generosity. But, across countries, this responsiveness is much stronger for richer than for poorer citizens #SocSciResearch journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

Members of Congress were not responsive to constituent opinion on NAFTA over the course of the debate, not even from co-partisans or the affluent #SocSciResearch static1.squarespace.com/static/5bbcb8a…

Make no mistake: Eduardo Bolsonaro's attack against China is calculated and makes total sense: diverts attention from the government's incoherent response to the pandemic and mobilizes supporters against a common enemy. Will try to whip up anti-communist & nationalist sentiment.

Most of this swing occurs from 2012-2016, with relative stability between 2016 and 2020

The July issue of World Politics is live! Read issue 3 of volume 75 here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50432 Authors include Nikhar Gaikwad, Erin Lin, Noah Zucker, @KTertytchnaya, Allison Carnegie, Richard Clark, @ErikPeinert Yu R. Zeng Junyan Jiang, Jie Li, and christiangoebel.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: Yu R. Zeng, Junzhi He & Xiaobo Lu find long-term constituency service was an effective strategy of persuading & mobilizing valence voters in China's semi-competitive local elections. Read in Political Studies: buff.ly/428YT7W @SAGECQPolitics Political Studies Association

The February 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 2) of #UrbanStudies is out now featuring articles by Christy Kulz, yuanyuanxfy, Yu R. Zeng, Jose Carpio-Pinedo, Eason, Selcan, Karl Wennberg and many more journals.sagepub.com/toc/usja/62/2