Erin Baggott Carter

Assistant Professor @USC, Hoover Fellow @HooverInst. Author, Propaganda in Autocracies (

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

Go Connie!

[Stanford Women’s Tennis @StanfordWTennis]

The @pac12's top-ranked player picks up the conference's final weekly award 🥇🎾👏

📰 https://t.co/KpWn36RTAE

#GoStanford

[Sophie Richardson @SophieDRich]

.@AmbXieFeng: "大部分在中国进行的民意调查都采用直接提问的方式来衡量民众对中共(中国共产党)及政府政策的支持度。这些直接提问式调查通常发现，中国公民对政府的支持率超过 90%。因此，学���们推断中共享有真正的合法性。本文介绍了我们在当代中国进行的两项调查实验的结果..." 1/3

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

If you would like to learn more about state-society relations in China and other autocracies (like how Chinese and Russian propaganda cover democracy, June 4, and Donald Trump), check out our book, Propaganda in Autocracies (https://t.co/gX9tTu6K1r) @brett_l_carter

[Xiaojun Li @nujoaixil]

In my #OpenAccess paper with Weiyi Shi and @BoliangZhu (https://t.co/wkElABwfRz) in 2018, we documented similar biases using four list experiments. We proposed further assessment of this issue in future research, so it is good to see this new paper out.

[Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson]

A cynical person might say "no duh" but it's in fact very useful to have this proven: Chinese citizens fudge their answers on opinion polls; thus we must question polls showing that the CCP enjoys widespread legitimacy. @chinaquarterly
https://t.co/6T89ltZ2y8

[Victor Shih @vshih2]

Again an important study by Erin and Bret Carter @chinaquarterly that folks should read

[Dexter Roberts @dtiffroberts]

THREAD: “Most public opinion research in China uses direct questions to measure support for the CCP and gov't policies. These direct question surveys routinely find that over 90% of Chinese citizens support the government" @baggottcarter @brett_l_carter https://t.co/NOGp8mtQek

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

@dtiffroberts @USC @HooverInst @brett_l_carter @stephenaschick Thanks for this thread! Now I am curious to read more about your take on this.

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

@TheEconomist features survey research of Hoover fellows Erin Baggot Carter (@baggottcarter) and Brett Logan Carter (@brett_l_carter ) who find that the CCP is much less popular in China than widely assumed.
Read more:

https://t.co/8WU0wetT8F

[The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly]

🔓New open access paper @brett_l_carter, @baggottcarter and @stephenaschick examines #survey methodology in #China.
https://t.co/pXqWa01K3w

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

"If I could leave America with one thought it would be this: Do not underestimate your moral strength. Promote your values instead of apologizing for them, especially when you deal with China." — Jimmy Lai in a great interview with @p_m_robinson

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

4 years ago today: @p_m_robinson interviews Jimmy Lai for #UncommonKnowledge at the Hoover Institution. Lai made a passionate case for preserving freedom & democracy in Hong Kong. In 2022, Lai was sentenced & remains imprisoned by the CCP. #FreeJimmyLai: https://t.co/8aIznUtaYv

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

Informative article by @LiYuan6. The US is missing out on the emigration of talent from China, where there is discontent with rising repression. As @ryanl_hass notes, 60% of the most valuable US tech firms were founded by immigrants or their children.

https://t.co/fNgrTr1uJH

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

As great-power competition intensifies, Africa’s democracies will be torn between the United States and its adversaries, writes @brett_l_carter. How can Washington undercut Beijing’s and Moscow’s influence across the global South?
https://t.co/mN1kkaOQpy

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

Worth a read

[Bibek Bhandari @bibekbhandari]

After six years, I’ve left @SixthTone. Or conditions were created for me to leave after publishing a project that criticized “zero-COVID,” which landed multiple people in hot water. It’s been bittersweet leaving a place we’ve built over the years but it was time.

(A long 🧵)

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

@vshih2 @SusanShirk1 @21CenturyChina Congratulations!

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

Lobbying Congress has become crucial to China's grand strategy in an era of more hostile US-China relations. More in my statement for today's @USCC_GOV hearing on China's global influence and interference activities, w/ specific proposals for FARA reform: https://t.co/QkDlRMQib9

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

China focused grad students and untenured profs, consider this great conference!

[Lynette Ong @onglynette]

Recent headlines suggest a recovering economy and Xi's attempt to win back friends in the West, one may think the worst of Covid is over for China. Unlikely. I offer some analysis on its long-term implications for Chinese governance in @ForeignAffairs. Thread.

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

7/ In Propaganda in Autocracies (out next month!) @brett_l_carter and I write more about China and Russia's propaganda strategies in global perspective. https://t.co/NG0rvAmBMJ

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

Today in @ForeignAffairs, @brett_l_carter, @LarryDiamond, and I argue that China + Russia seek to undermine American democracy to buttress against their own domestic problems. A thread on the emerging research agenda behind these claims, by us and others: https://t.co/QEqaWA5e0h

[Erin Baggott Carter @baggottcarter]

6/ @RochelleTerman and Pete Cuppernell find that autocrats have discovered how to use search engine optimization to ensure that "different parts of the world inhabit different information pools, encoding distinct visions of international life." https://t.co/gbqdUbrTso