The Foreign Face of Personalist Rule: The Impact of Xi Jinping’s Personalization of Power on Taiwanese Attitudes towards China

• In Event: Public Trust and Authoritarian Control

Brief Overview

We test whether personalization of power makes regimes seem more threatening abroad. Two experiments in Taiwan using AI-generated videos show no significant effect, likely due to high cross-strait tensions creating a ceiling effect.

Authors

• Paul Schuler, University of Arizona

• Yongfeng Tang, University of Arizona