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Apr 2026

What do time travel, online fiction, and Chinese politics have in common? In Make China Great Again: Online Alt‑History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism, newly released by Columbia University Press, SPIA professor

Mar 2026

How policy effectiveness leads to voluntary policy compliance during crises: A cross-national comparison between the US and South Korea

This study argues that policy effectiveness is a public value that citizens expect the government to demonstrate in serving society at large, which promotes their normative motivation to voluntarily comply

Oct 2025

“Propaganda State 2.0” in China

By observing China’s domestic media landscape and state policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper proposes the concept of “propaganda state 2.0” as a framework for exploring autocratic state propaganda

Oct 2025

Authoritarian Elasticity: How Autocracies May Effectively Mobilize for Crisis Management

Current studies on authoritarian resilience have yet to fully explain how autocracies can effectively cope with crises that threaten regime survival. To fill the gap, we introduce the concept of

May 2025

Political Control and Perverse Incentives in Bureaucracy

What drives bureaucratic behavior in dictatorships? How do political-bureaucratic relationships shape policy implementation and social outcomes in the absence of electoral accountability? Focusing on the Chinese bureaucracy since the Mao

Sep 2024

The Xi Jinping Effect

The Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People’s Republic of China’s current “”paramount leader””—arguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (1893–1976)—and multiple areas of political and social

Aug 2024

Passing on the red genes: Communism nostalgia in online fictions and ideological governance in China

How does communism as an ideology fare in the post-reform digital age China? What are the implications for China’s ideological governance? Through online ethnographic work and text analysis, this paper

Jul 2024

From empowering Internet to digital dominance: The past, present, and future of cyber politics in China

The article aims at offering a bird’s-eye overview of the evolution of cyber politics in China in the past 30 years, tracking real-world developments while surveying the main trends in

Apr 2024

China’s EV Battery Dominance: The Need For US– South Korea Cooperation

The United States and its allies have common interests in competing with China but are also competing with one another, something that complicates efforts at cooperation. Nevertheless, cooperation among America

Mar 2024

Repression, Interests and Outgroup Attitudes: A Survey Experiment in Post-Coup Myanmar

Can outgroup attitudes improve in a repressive context? Existing literature highlights how shared victimization generated under repression facilitates recategorization of identity boundaries, thereby ameliorating exclusionary attitudes. We propose an alternative

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Apr 2026

SPIA Ranked Among Top Public Affairs Schools

The School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia continues to rank among the leading institutions for public service education, earning top marks in both national and

Jul 2026

UGA leads nation with 18 Boren Scholars in 2026

A record-breaking 18 undergraduates at the University of Georgia were named Boren Scholars this spring, landing UGA at No. 1 among top-performing institutions for Boren Awards, which takes into account

Jul 2026

Behind the Scenes of Justice: Why Trust in Prosecutors Matters More Than You Think

Most people are familiar with a justice system made up of the police and the courts. Police are visible. Judges are public. Far fewer people could tell you who their

Jul 2026

July 2026 MPA Student of the Month: Jason Young

This Fall, Jason Young is aiming to finish his final semester in the MPA program. After nearly two decades building a career in horticulture and public gardens, Jason came to