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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 12d

"Normalization of Censorship: Evidence from China" by
Tony Zirui Yang.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 19d

For the longest time, similar conversations happened about my research (and even earlier my political opinions on social media) on Chinese politics. It is saddening that (1) it’s happening in America now and (2) our responses are converging quickly to actual authoritarian context.

Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 19d

Equally concerning as the headlines about censorship is the multiple conversations I had recently about self-censoring our research due to political climate. It’s a tricky question with no easy answer. But perhaps we are not real autocracies yet, and we play a part in preventing that from happening.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 19d

Equally concerning as the headlines about censorship is the multiple conversations I had recently about self-censoring our research due to political climate. It’s a tricky question with no easy answer. But perhaps we are not real autocracies yet, and we play a part in preventing that from happening.

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Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social · 20d

Power move! Influenced by multiple factors and in response to multiple forces, including the political. #highered news.emory.edu/features/202...

Emory [University] will be tuition-free for students whose families earn $200,000 or less

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks Jan! So nice to see you again!

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 24d

We welcome all research on authoritarian politics broadly defined. Currently, it’s all in-person.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks, Konstantin!

Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · 25d

Honored to receive this year’s Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award in Political Communication @polcomm.bsky.social. Grateful to everyone who supported me along this incredible journey.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 Call for Papers: 2026 WPSA Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics 🚨

Jun Sudduth, @paulschuler.bsky.social, and I are excited to see y’all in San Diego! We welcome formal and empirical papers on a broad range of topics.

📌 Apply here. Share with colleagues & students:
forms.gle/Dv2SBEduFxSh...

Mini-Conference on Authoritarian Politics, WPSA 2026

April 2-4, 2026 Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California Contact us: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · Jun 30

💘Can authoritarian propaganda cultivate support and deter protest during “normal” times?

➡️ @tzyang.bsky.social & @zhuhs.bsky.social find that hard propaganda reinforces support for protest, while soft propaganda loses credibility www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks, MiLO!

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Jun 19

Oh wow! Super interesting! We did get some data from state media accounts on Weibo but ended up going for the short paper route. Would love to read it when it’s ready!

Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨📣 Our paper titled 🪢👅 analyzing the limits of China’s propaganda during the COVID chaos in late 2022 is finally out @psrm.bsky.social !!!

Hongshen Zhu @zhuhs.bsky.social · Jun 19

In December 2022, Chinese official propaganda on COVID policy made a sharp U-turn. How did these contradictory messages from the policy shift impact citizens’ perceptions? We find "soft" ones lost persuasiveness while "hard" ones more strongly deterred protests.
@psrm.bsky.social

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · May 28

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se

What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸

In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing.

📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · May 3

UK voters are making my decision to move back to the US a lot less painful.

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Apr 26

But hopefully it doesn’t take a Katrina this time around 🤞

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Apr 24

Since day 1 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, I’ve been plotting a workshop on the frontiers of authoritarian politics. The world, helpfully, has only gotten more authoritarian, making it more relevant by the day.

Big thanks to @benansell.bsky.social and all participants who made it a huge success!

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · Jan 3

Cool to see my next book Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics co-authored w/ Alex Cooley as one of "The Most Anticipated Books of 2025" in @foreignpolicy.com

The Most Anticipated Books of 2025

The biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics.

foreignpolicy.com

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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨 Super excited to have @tzyang.bsky.social presenting his research this Thursday!

He and M. Tavits introduce Binary Gender ID strength (BGIS) as an explanation for anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice with cool experiments. 🏳️‍🌈

Don't miss it!

Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · Mar 4

🏳️‍🌈 Be sure to join us this Thursday for our March webinar with @tzyang.bsky.social!

👉 Tony will present his amazing work showing how binary gender identity strength increases prejudice towards LGBTQ+ individuals.

📆 Don't miss it!

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Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · Mar 4

🏳️‍🌈 Be sure to join us this Thursday for our March webinar with @tzyang.bsky.social!

👉 Tony will present his amazing work showing how binary gender identity strength increases prejudice towards LGBTQ+ individuals.

📆 Don't miss it!

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Feb 18

“Trump Saves the Liberals” I can’t wait to see this title 🥶.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · Feb 5

A bright spot on the horizon amid all the bleak news this week. Thanks to all the great people at Nuffield College!

LGBTQ+ flag flying above Nuffield College.

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · Jan 30

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children*

Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre

doi.org

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Jan 25

Tried Deepseek for the first time. Idk… feels like censorship to me… 🤷🤷‍♀️🤷🏽‍♂️

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Tony Yang @tzyang.bsky.social · Jan 18

lol… my dad starts complaining about all the TikTok refugees on RedNote flooding the Chinese content he follows.

Novel form of anti-immigration sentiment in the social media era 😂😂😂

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