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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

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/...

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Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

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...

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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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Adam Scharpf @ascharpf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

🚨‼️🏆📣 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.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 29/11/2025

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/...

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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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.

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Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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

Emory [University] will be tuition-free for students whose families earn $200,000 or less

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🚨 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...

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Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics, WPSA 2026

April 2-4, 2026 Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California Contact us: pschuler@arizona.edu; jsudduth@iu.edu; zirui.yang@emory.edu

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

💘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

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🚨📣 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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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 28/05/2025

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...

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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!

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨 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!

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Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🏳️‍🌈 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!

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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

LGBTQ+ flag flying above Nuffield College.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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 😂😂😂

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Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 29/11/2024

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

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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. 🧵

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Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My book is out! I’m grateful for the many people in Jordan, Tunisia, Stanford, and elsewhere who helped it reach this point. If you’re interested in why some autocrats stay popular or why ruling monarchs are so durable in today’s world, this book is for you! www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

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The King Can Do No Wrong

Cambridge Core - Middle East Government,Politics and Policy - The King Can Do No Wrong

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Zhifan Luo @zhifan-luo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Glad to see the growth of the literature on participatory censorship! For our paper proposing the term, please check here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Fresh off the press @cpsjournal.bsky.social!! My paper takes a systematic look at public participation in censorship in China. With a fun survey experiment simulating social media experiences, I find online reporting significantly increased public support for censorship. doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#FirstView: UCSDPoliSci's Michael Joseph and Michael Poznansky ask why some of the most radical innovations of the last century came from orgs shrouded in secrecy. The findings have important implications for debates about tech, innovation, and US-China rivalry. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Secret Innovation | International Organization | Cambridge Core

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Still amazed that the word “Oriental” is so widely used in the UK.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It’s been a while since the word “Democracy” doesn’t mean anything anymore among ordinary people in authoritarian regimes. (Just a term to describe what they like or don’t like.) It seems like it is becoming increasingly the case in democracies as well.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’ve been emotionally detached from Chinese politics for a long time. I don’t feel sad or angry about anything really. Today, I feel sad, angry, fearful, and painful. Immense admiration for scores of people who dedicated yrs of precious lives to democracy in HK. Hope history will absolve all of you.

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 19/11/2024

Forty-five democrats received jail terms of up to 10 years on Tuesday in Hong Kong's largest national security case. They were arrested in January 2021 and charged the following month. In full: buff.ly/40ULNuu

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Use my “Hello World” post for Bluesky to reflect on today’s wonderful lunch and coffee with @valentimvicente.bsky.social and his great, new, timely book on the normalization of radical right. Thanks Vicente for generously citing my (unpublished) job market paper 😊.

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