Poster Session: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

• In Event: Poster Session: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries & Critical Political Science

Session Submission Type: Poster Session

Session Description

The papers in this poster session broadly examine the mechanisms of authoritarian resilience in communist and post-communist regimes. In particular, several papers investigate the impact of international or domestic political economy on regime stability, such as autocratic aid (Heurlin), subnational variation in market development (Lee), or the impact of the autocratic middle class (Chan). Others consider the impact of grassroots political participation on regime stability, including citizen petitions (Brown) and mass participation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic (Chen). Yet others examine bottom-up censorship (Yang; Chou) and online displays of government responsiveness (Tongtong Zhang). Overall, the posters in this session shed light on how autocratic regimes ensure their continued rule. Finally, Si Yang Liu examines the ethnic identity vs. economic considerations dynamics of conflict and confrontation in the peripheral regions.

Sub Unit

• Division 13: Politics of Communist and Former Communist Countries

Individual Presentations

• Aid and Authoritarian Consolidation: Evidence from China, Vietnam and Cambodia - Christopher Heurlin, Bowdoin College

• Do Chinese Bureaucrats Reward Contentious Petitioners? - Junius Flagg Brown, University of California, Berkeley

• Demanding Censorship: How Public Participation Justifies Censorship in China - Tony Zirui Yang, Washington University in St. Louis

• A Tale of Two Cities: Spillover Effects of a Democratic Tsunami - Ka Ming Chan, Consortium on Electoral Democracy

• Whose Voice Matters? Loyalists, Dissidents, and Responsiveness in China - Tongtong Zhang, Stanford University

• More than Bread and Butter: Identity Contestation in Hong Kong and Kazakhstan - Si Yang Liu, The University of Hong Kong

Chair

• Grace C. Huang St. Lawrence University

Discussant

• Hans Lueders Princeton University