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How the Pro-Beijing Media Influences Voters: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Authoritarian regimes have increasingly leveraged foreign media to project influence within democracies, yet evidence of these co-opted outlets' actual effects remains scarce. This study presents findings from a field experiment conducted during …

Mistrust and Backfire: Information on Government Responsiveness and Tax Compliance in China

This study investigates how perceptions of government responsiveness influence citizen compliance in authoritarian regimes, specifically examining how exposure to information about reported government responsiveness affects individuals' willingness …

Racial Identities, Linguistic Proficiency, and Public Attitudes towards Immigrants: Evidence from Two Surveys in Taiwan

Are host populations more accepting of immigrants who are racially similar and/or linguistically proficient in the host vernacular? The empirical focus in the literature has been largely dominated by Western democracies where the host society is …

Do Gains in Political Representation Sweeten Tax Reform in China? It Depends on Who You Ask

Governments can grant political concessions to induce quasi-voluntary compliance with taxation, yet empirical evidence probing the taxation–representation connection remains inconclusive. We contend that this association remains valid but it is …

Experiments in Asian Politics

Minority Language Recognition and Political Trust in Authoritarian Regimes

While authoritarian regimes are often characterized by their civil liberty restrictions, some dictatorships acknowledge the ethnolinguistic diversity of their population. Are minorities in multiethnic authoritarian states more likely to trust the …

Family Matters: Education and the (Conditional) Effect of State Indoctrination in China

When and how does state indoctrination work? Building upon research on motivated reasoning and family socialization, I argue that only those individuals whose parents have connections to political patronage are subject to state indoctrination because …

Varieties of Authoritarianism: In Search of China's Regime Type