Reassessing Hirschman’s Influence Effect with Event Data: Evidence from China and Russia

• In Event: Chinese Foreign Economic Policy in an Age of Growing Anti-Chinese Sentiment

Brief Overview

We reassess Hirschman’s “influence effect” by replicating key studies on China and Russia using granular event data, providing new empirical evidence and methodological innovations on trade-driven political alignment.

Authors

• Nazim Uras Demir, Loyola Marymount University

• Victor Ferguson, Hitotsubashi University