Does promoting democracy to the public of a rising authoritarian power work? In a new paper in Perspectives on Politics, I test it using the US Embassy in China's pro-democracy posts on Chinese social media, using two survey experiments in 2018 and 2021. Results are sobering and counter-intuitive
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The Sound of Silence: #Championing #Democracy in an #Authoritarian #Society
By @hhuang.bsky.social
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