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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

How do voters behave in democracies with unstable parties? In a newly published article in Party Politics, @pward89.bsky.social and I examine South Korea, a textbook case of an “ephemeral party system.” The article is Open Access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Interesting that Bluesky is certain that UK labor's right turn on immigration is doomed. A sharp right turn on immigration by Danish social democrats (yes, with a left turn on welfare) led them to pulverize the populist right. I do not know it will work, but the determinism in opinions is strange.

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

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Tim Krieger @timkriegerfr.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

"Destroying America's Brand" One way to think about this is to say that Trump is doing to America what Elon Musk is doing to Tesla, destroying a valuable brand through erratic behavior and repulsive ideology. Paul Krugman

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Destroying America's Brand

Losing the world's trust, and a lot of money too

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

What do the useful idiots, also called Trump-fan Chinese pro-democracy dissidents, say by now actually?

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Dear @posit.co, can you please invent an update button. 🙂

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I wonder what incentivizes left-center governments, such as Vienna's, to promote gender neutral language. Public opinion is leaning heavily against it. Granted, Vienna's population is likely more accepting. But I still doubt this wins more voters than it is driving voters away.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Author affiliations in a random sample of publications in 3 top China Studies journals. The dominance of Anglo-US scholars is remarkable. A whopping 48% of knowledge on China published in these journals was produced in the US, UK, AUS and CAN. Only 33% was produced in Mainland China or Hong Kong.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

European societies, Germany in particular, had 8 years to rethink their dillusional assumptions about the nature of the international system and the value of hard power. Now the hand wringing and panicking starts again...

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Interesting initiative to highlight and critique the severe under representation of the Global South in German-speaking television news. weisses-rauschen.de/hero/202409P...

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Cornelius Dieckmann @codieckmann.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the Hong Kong government:

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Andrea Ghiselli @andreaghiselli.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Many great #Chinawatchers have joined BlueSky recently. So I’ve updated this large #starterpack with experts and journalists writing about #China ‘s #foreignpolicy, #economy, and #politics. Join, share, and follow! go.bsky.app/NZzqdpY

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

South Korea may have been closer to military rule than it initially appeared. 👇

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Good to know. In research that hopefully will see the light of the day soonish, I try to make the point that one key argument for surveillance in China has been that "society needs to be protected from itself."

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Right, Junius "fraternizing with triad hooligans" Ho.

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

1/4 Either the consensus has become nearly unanimous, or the media are freezing out alternative views, but what some of us were arguing over a decade ago seems to have taken a firm hold of much of the economic reform discussion. www.yicaiglobal.com/news/china-n...

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China Needs Consumer-Focused Policies to Boost Demand, Think Tank's Head Says

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Some structural background behind the South Korea martial law event. 👇

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law in South Korea, citing alleged anti-state activities by opposition forces. This extremely surprising move grants the military authority over civilian affairs. Why did this happen? Some context and thoughts are below. apnews.com/article/sout...

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South Korean president declares emergency martial law, accusing opposition of anti-state activities

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared an “emergency martial law," accusing the country's opposition of controlling the parliament and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In this new study with Xue Gong and Jan Delhey, published in the Chinese Sociological Review, we re-evaluate the widely shared belief that China experienced a "trust crisis" – the rationale behind the “social credit system” – during its rapid modernization. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Chasing a phantom: a re-evaluation of China’s “trust crisis”

A “trust crisis” has sparked public concern and driven state-led moral engineering in China. If China’s rapid development has indeed eroded social trust, it would challenge the optimistic theory of...

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

In this new study published in The China Quarterly, YANG Kai and I show that value-driven protests in China (advocating non-materialist and public interest claims at odds with the regime) are less rare and less often repressed than previously assumed www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Value-driven Contention in China: Forms, Tactics and State Responses | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Value-driven Contention in China: Forms, Tactics and State Responses

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Opposition fully liquidated. Hong Kong has become the world's most radical effort to combine free markets and political unfreedom. To the extent that they succeed, we will all suffer hongkongfp.com/2024/11/19/b...

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Fantastic that with #LittleBigLies we now have series that brings the world of blasé Western "expats" with their absurd sense of entitlement into our living rooms. In my more than 10 years in Hong Kong I tried to avoid this bubble. Should I watch this? www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/big_littl...

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Some professional news. I have been elected speaker of the ASC, the "Working Group on Social Science Research on China" under the German Association of Asian Studies (DGA). Looking forward to doing my share in moderating China research in the German-speaking world through these challenging times.

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Ever wondered where the idea of #SocialCredit came from, and how it landed on the agenda of China's leaders? Pierre Sel has you covered in his forthcoming article in the China Review. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Chris Claassen @chrisclaassen.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Public support for democracy is crucial to prevent backsliding. But existing survey questions focusing on “democracy” may not measure the concept well, as the term “democracy” varies in meaning and may prompt social desirability. polisky 1/3

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Maximilian Mayer @maximilianiras.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

“A new set of draft rules issued by China would, if finalized, roll back a key part of China’s data regulatory regime that was on course to force a disruptive data decoupling between China and the rest of the world” www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

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China's new rules on data flows could signal a shift away from security toward growth

A new set of draft rules issued by China would, if finalized, roll back a key part of China’s data regulatory regime that was on course to force a disruptive data decoupling between China and the re...

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

The Department of East Asian Studies, Sinology will host Andrew MacDonald from Duke, Kunshan to enlighten us on online privacy attitudes in China. Wed October 11, 18:30-20:00. Be there or be square.

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Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

The conversation is based on a research project with my co-author, Peter Ward. We show how the structure of social relations among citizens in North Korea, particularly social capital and trust (and the lack thereof in the DPRK), stymies information flow. There are no weak ties!

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How Autocracies Disrupt Unsanctioned Information Flows: The Role of State Power and Social Capital i...

What determines the flow of unsanctioned information in authoritarian regimes? To answer this question, we explore the use and circulation of illicit foreign information among citizens in North Kor...

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H. Christoph Steinhardt @hcsteinhardt.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Hi, I am a scholar of Chinese-speaking societies. I will use this space for occasional professional communication and anecdotal observations. I am happy to report that after more than three years, I finally managed to reconnect with Mainland China, HK and Taiwan, visiting all of them in 2023.

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