The February 2025 issue (Volume 62, Issue 2) of #UrbanStudies is out now featuring articles by @ChristyKulz, @yuanyuanxfy, @richard_zengyu, @CarpioPi, @Eason44180440, @selcanmutgan, @KarlWennberg1 and many more https://t.co/UeOJ7xTyxT

NEW PAPER: @richard_zengyu, 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 @PolStudies: https://t.co/OKgxCEUI7J @SAGECQPolitics @PolStudiesAssoc

The July issue of @World_Pol is live! Read issue 3 of volume 75 here: https://t.co/4fxtzB03l5 Authors include @nikhargaikwad, Erin Lin, @noahzucker, @KTertytchnaya, @AllieCarnegie, Richard Clark, @ErikPeinert @richard_zengyu @JunyanJiang, Jie Li, and @Chri5tianGoebel

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

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.

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 https://t.co/CxxxfV1ulb

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 https://t.co/pU8yDc11Jy

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: https://t.co/6BDLFkeIMQ

"CASM: A Deep-Learning Approach for Identifying Collective Action Events with Text and Image Data from Social Media" with Han Zhang in print: https://t.co/C79uiHG7u7. We found >135k protests from 2010-17 in China. Here's the data (posts + events): link:

22. Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America https://t.co/qAalv7dxAc via @YouTube

The 9 Free Machine Learning Courses from the World-Class Educators

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

WSJ Opinion from James Bacchus: #China has legitimate grievances with U.S. trade practices, too. The #WTO often looks askance at American antidumping tariffs https://t.co/oMAv8MG1f2 via @WSJ

politically connected firms have a significantly higher debt ratio & face a lower cost of debt #SocSciResearch

Poli Sci podcasts (mentioned in Facebook discussion): New Books in Political Science: https://t.co/7zP9UO14gE Science of Politics: https://t.co/bnnYg3mcPb No Jargon: https://t.co/khEQv13jYx Party Politics: https://t.co/Cq2frl8KZw The Politics Guys: https://t.co/eVqcaCD0R5 1/n

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.

The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance

Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru

Media Bias against Foreign Firms as a Veiled Trade Barrier: Evidence from Chinese Newspapers

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