relationship in the context of facial recognition AI in China. To do so, we gather comprehensive data on AI firms and government … procurement contracts, as well as on social unrest across China during the last decade. We first show that autocrats benefit from …

-development institutions, how should one understand why Imperial China, with weaker rule of law and property rights, gave the commoners more … par with the Elites in China in terms of power and rights. Based on these narratives, we build a game-theoretical model … differences between Imperial China and Premodern Europe, as well as specific institutions such as the bureaucracy in China and the …

from rural China. Consistent with the model, we find that elections improve (weaken) the implementation of popular …

Autocracy 2.0, exemplified by modern China, is economically robust, technologically advanced, globally engaged, and … controlled through subtle and sophisticated methods. What defines China's political economy, and what drives Autocracy 2.0? What … shift in handling commitment and information challenges. China uses economic incentives to align interests with regime …

. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …

reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure … participation and democracy in China, increased trust in government officials, and a more skeptical view of free markets …

exposure to the Communist ideology shaped an individual's choice to join the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the party …-century China's most important wars. Our identification strategy exploits the locality-time-content variation in the circulation of … ideology channel were less likely to quit the CCP and more likely to sacrifice their lives. Additionally, we document that …

-unitary actors by discussing extant work on nondemocracies in Sub-Saharan Africa and China, where the prevailing view of winner …