Program

Session 1

9:00-10:20

Political Violence and Coercion


Chair: Congyi Zhou (NYU)


  • Political Repression, Media Propaganda, and Nation Building


  • Time: 9:00-9:40

  • Presenter: Peiyuan Li (University of Colorado Boulder)

  • Discussant: Cong Liu (Jinan University)


  • The Social Costs of State Violence: Evidence from Bureaucratic Purges in China


  • Time: 9:40-10:20

  • Presenter: Ning He (NYU)

  • Discussant: Daniel Mattingly (Yale)

Session 2

10:40-12:40

Public Officials: Assignment, Promotion, and Exit Options


Chair: Arturas Rozenas (NYU)


  • Subsidies for Sale: Post-government Career Concerns, Revolving-door Channels, and Public Resource Misallocation in China


  • Time: 10:40-11:20

  • Presenter: Zeren Li (Yale)

  • Discussant: Julia Payson (NYU)


  • Preexisting Trade Networks and the Allocation of Chinese Ambassadors


  • Time: 11:20-12:00

  • Presenter: Lu Sun (TAMU)

  • Discussant: Congyi Zhou (NYU)


  • How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign-Domestic Threat Dilemma in China


  • Time: 12:00-12:40

  • Presenter: Daniel Mattingly (Yale)

  • Discussant: Arturas Rozenas (NYU)

Session 3

14:00-16:00

Propaganda: Domestic and International Audiences


Chair: Mengfan Cheng (NYU)


  • Discerning Chinese Propaganda: Experimental Evidence for Chinese Respondents’ Partial Capacity to Discern Propaganda from Independent Reporting


  • Time: 14:00-14:40

  • Presenter: Hannah Waight (NYU)

  • Discussant: Jennifer Pan (Stanford)


  • We Hear You: How do State-run Media Pay Attention to Online Public Opinion?


  • Time: 14:40-15:20

  • Presenter: Lucie Lu (UIUC)

  • Discussant: Rory Truex (Princeton)


  • Chinese “Wolf Warrior” Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion


  • Time: 15:20-16:00

  • Presenter: Chaohong Pan (UC Merced)

  • Discussant: Xu Xu (Princeton)

Session 4

16:20-17:40

Judicial Institutions and Authoritarian Control


Chair: Patrick Chester (NYU)


  • Transparency for Authoritarian Stability: Open Government Information and Contention with Institutions in China


  • 16:20-17:00

  • Presenter: Handi Li (Emory)

  • Discussant: Yue Hou (University of Pennsylvania)


  • To Co-opt or to Infiltrate: Collective Action and Representation in a Judicial Reform of China


  • 17:00-17:40

  • Presenter: Siyun Jiang (UT Austin)

  • Discussant: Tara Slough (NYU)