Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

How has digital media transformed authoritarian propaganda? In our new @ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ paper with Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan & ‪@yiqingxu.bsky.social‬, we proposed a *decentralized propaganda* model and empirically demonstrate its existence on Douyin: doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🧵