04. Political Communication

Jonathan H. Hassid, Iowa State University

How Authoritarian States Use Short-Video Propaganda to Signal Coercive and Administrative Capacities: Evidence from Douyin - Yiqiang Wang, University of Hong Kong; Yingqi Huang, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Haohan Chen, University of Hong Kong

Media Patronage and Infilitration: How Authoritarian Regimes Exploit Media Competition to Shape Global Information - Matt DeButts, Stanford University; Jennifer Pan, Stanford University

Reframing Performance: Political Communication in the Time of Economic Downturns - Handi Li, University College London; Jennifer Gandhi, Yale University

Sympathy Capital and Authoritarianism: Assessing the Impact of China’s Panda-Diplomacy-Style Digital Soft-Power Initiative Propaganda in a Politically Polarized Context - Shuli Zhang, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus

The Contagion of Distant Politics: Partisan Discourse on Chinese-language Social Media During Major U.S. Political Events - Muzhi Liu, Columbia University

Tony Zirui Yang, Emory University

Jonathan H. Hassid, Iowa State University