Division and Connection: How Does Networking Sway Mobilization in Autocracy with Capacity?

• In Event: Social Networks and Radicalization

Brief Overview

I model how individual networking can bridge the masses division and synchronize group opinions. I test the model with the Chinese government crackdown on labor activists in 2015 and examine its mechanism using granular activist-worker network data.

Author

• Yuequan Guo, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor