Voice of Democracy: The Impact of the American Embassy’s Social Media Operations in An Authoritarian Society

• In Event: Domestic Factors and China's External Relations

Brief Overview

How does political information about foreign democracies influence public opinion in an authoritarian country? I address the question by experimentally studying the effects of social media posts of the US embassy in China about democracy in America.

Author

• Haifeng Huang, University of California-Merced