Gary ziwen_Zu
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Gary ziwen_Zu
@zu_gary
Incoming AP @UTKnoxville | PhD Candidate @UCSDPolSci | MA @DukePoliSci. Studying authoritarian institutions, Chinese politics, and methodology. He/him 🌈
La Jolla, CA เข้าร่วม Mart 2016
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My recent open-access article provides a new perspective to understand politics and propaganda in today's China. “Propaganda State 2.0” in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4aAVoKb
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If the current wave of military purges has you asking “why now?”, read @vshih2 Coalitions of the Weak an insightful causal map of how coalitions form, fracture, and get policed in contemporary China.
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Some personal news: I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (@UTKnoxville ) as an Assistant Professor of Political Science this August! 🍊 🧡 🏔️
I look forward to continuing my research on Chinese politics, authoritarian rule, and information management at UTK. Huge thanks to my mentors and the wonderful community at @UCSD @GPS_UCSD for their support.
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Congratulations to Tian Xuebin, the first "tiger" to be probed by China's anti-graft agency in 2026
Tian was a vice-minister of water resources from 2015-23, when he retired
Background: scmp.com/news/china/pol…
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After five years from the first draft, my job market paper is finally forthcoming @World_Pol. I greatly appreciate all who helped and commented. I hope it offers something to those interested in transparency, institution development, authoritarianism, or contentious politics.
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🚨 New Working Paper Alert! 🚨
How China Responded to the Trade War
Using firm-level data on subsidies + procurement, we examine how China cushioned the shock from U.S. tariffs:
1️⃣ Tariff-exposed firms received more subsidies
2️⃣ Support flowed mainly to politically connected—not productive—firms
3️⃣ Local governments also stepped in: tariff-hit local firms received much larger procurement contracts
Takeaway: China did provide support, but in highly political and very local ways.
🔗 How China Responded to the Trade War: Evidence from Subsidies and Public Procurement
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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A must read for scholars interested in Chinese public opinion!
H. Huang@haifeng_huang
How do people in a rising power view their country's global standing? My new paper in @IntOrgJournal finds significant national overconfidence in China and shows that misperceptions can be corrected and triumphalism mitigated cup.org/49rBoKZ 崛起大国的过度自信及其校正
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🚨 New in AJPS! Excited to share my new article with Shenghua Lu on business interest group in China. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…
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Gary ziwen_Zu รีทวีตแล้ว
Join us on 10/23 at 5pm PDT! @XiaoboLu1, associate professor of Political Science from UC Berkeley, will examine which factors fueled the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rise and its rival Kuomingtang's (KMT) fall in China in the early 20th century. RSVP: ow.ly/zUxn50X5bmp
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Gary ziwen_Zu รีทวีตแล้ว
China’s science & technology ecosystem made searchable! @ChinaDataLab and @UCIGCC launch the China Policy Document Navigator, a first-of-its-kind database giving researchers curated access to hard-to-find Chinese policy documents. Learn how to use it here: ow.ly/90VK50X8G5W
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Gary ziwen_Zu รีทวีตแล้ว
Join us on 10/23 at 5pm PDT! @XiaoboLu1, associate professor of Political Science from UC Berkeley, will examine which factors fueled the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rise and its rival Kuomingtang's (KMT) fall in China in the early 20th century. RSVP: ow.ly/zUxn50X5bmp
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Excited to share my JMP: I study how autocracies deliver justice through a state-run legal-aid hotline in China, staffed by real lawyers. It reveals how law becomes a tool of governance and control under authoritarian rule.
Chinese Politics Research in Progress@CPRPVirtual
Join us on Oct 10 for Ziwen (Gary) Zu (@zu_gary)'s presentation "Justice as Political Control: Field Experiment on China’s Legal Aid Hotlines." @tara_slough and @rorytruex will serve as discussants. Zoom link here: chinesepoliticsresearchinprogress.com/schedule/
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Gary ziwen_Zu รีทวีตแล้ว
The latest winner of the @PolAnalysis Editors' choice award has been announced.
The article by @Apoorva__Lal, @lockhartm, @xuyiqing and @zu_gary, can be accessed here - cup.org/457BtRy
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Just got rejected for being “too narrow.”
Guess it’s time to carboload.
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Gary ziwen_Zu รีทวีตแล้ว
Excited that our (@Apoorva__Lal, @xuyiqing, @zu_gary) paper won the Political Analysis' 2024 Editor's Choice award!
It was really a lot of work (we started this in 2018!), so nice to see we've had some impact on the field. It's also open access.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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@SiyuanFan_James @linshengqiao Really appreciate your valuable comments!
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@zu_gary @linshengqiao Honored to read the paper in advance! Fascinating!
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🚨 New working paper! 🚓💰
with @linshengqiao
We quantify a long-suspected phenomenon: governments turning to enforcement for revenue in times of fiscal distress.
Using detailed administrative records from China, we show how fines are used strategically—echoing global patterns (think U.S. traffic tickets).
#EconTwitter #PublicFinance #Governance
SSRN@SSRN
This paper analyzes how authoritarian governments use selective enforcement of administrative penalties to generate revenue during periods of fiscal stress. spkl.io/6011A89y1
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