Franziska Barbara Keller

Prof at icmb, University of Bern. authoritarian regimes, political networks and disinformation

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

Are you visiting #ceecon26 this week? Our PI @fbkeller will argue that Europe plays a more central role in the #Russia expert community and #network than among #ChinaWatchers. Make sure to drop by and conncect! https://t.co/Sq8maIhiXF

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

Planning meeting for our 2nd year: from papers, milestones (launching our panel survey) to conferences (organizing a #polnet #LLM workshop for @EPSS), we mapped it all out in this timeline. Stay tuned for details and calls for participation.

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@m_rochlitz findings from our autpol project with Arthur McFarlane and @m_rochlitz.
We found that the #Russiaexpert community is less centered on the #US than its #Chinaexpert counterpart, younger, and less male-dominated. 👇

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

Who are the Russia and China experts? At the American Sociological Association Annual Conference #ASA2026 in #NewYork we got the chance to present the first findings from our autpol project with Arthur McFarlane and @m_rochlitz. 👇

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

Dion Stevers (with Charles Chang) presents first results from his #WeChat experiment on why users chose to read pro-government content, wrapping up our 2nd #China panel at the #EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast. #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

The #Russia expert community is less centered on the #US than its #China expert counterpart and apparently less male-dominated. The first findings from our https://t.co/ahthXQY82g / @expert_survey project as presented at the #EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast! #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

Not at all #tangping (lying flat): Sungmin Rho talks with great energy about how men and women differ in their refusal to enact the scripts of social reproduction. Another great contribution to our 2nd #China panel at the #EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast. #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

@pflandry (with Zhang Zheng) on the importance of distinguishing the two Wang Lis when using #LLMs to build the ultimate biographical dataset of CCP officials. A great start to our 2nd #China panel at the
#EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast! #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

@pflandry (with Zhang Zheng) on the importance of distinguishing the two Wang Lis when using #LLMs to build the ultimate biographical dataset of #CCP officials. A great start to our 2nd #China panel at the #EPSS 2026 Annual Conference! #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

@doyon_jerome (with @AaronGlasserman) shows how ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in the #PRC bureaucracy, and usually constrained to their specific region and parts of the bureaucracy. At our first #China panel at the #EPSS 2026 Annual Conference in #Belfast #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

So why didn't the #CCP just repress all religious organizations when establishing the #PRC, painting this map all red? Read @ChuyuLiu and @haoliuhoward 's working paper on the #CCP strategy of repression and cooptation to find out! #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

Xiaoyu Zhang, in joint research with @pflandry, discusses how the #PRC government secures its borders by building elaborate border posts to draw its population to these remote areas. The second paper at our #China panels at the #EPSS 2026 Annual Conference. #EPSS2026

[Franziska Barbara Keller @fbkeller]

Esther S. was kicking off the first of our two #China panels at the #EPSS 2026 Annual Conference. Get in touch with her if you want to know how the #CCP gets academics to Make #Marxism Great Again. #EPSS2026

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@ECPR @vihangjumle @victoria_vzt @SerayYalaz Kirill Melnikov finds that #centrality in the #politicalnetwork of #Russian #elites protects them from getting dismissed in his presentation at the @ECPR #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks.

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@ECPR @vihangjumle @victoria_vzt Can a #Colombian businessperson's network prevent them getting targeted by #FARC? @SerayYalaz explores the role of #corporatenetworks in #collectiveaction to deter #rebelviolence in her PhD project presented at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks.

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@ECPR What do #Swiss voters find when they search for information on #Swiss political actors' stance in different #initiatives? Mykola Makhortykh presents research co-authored with Maryna Sydorova, @vihangjumle and @victoria_vzt at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop.

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@ECPR @Zaryfrank @SongpoYang @jiang_nan_zhu @JunyanJiang @HKUniversity @NaimBroKhomasi @GobiernoUAI .@PereFelipe presents his #python package #text2rel at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop. Check it out if you need to extract in particular familial relationships from scanned historical documents! @IPZ_ch @UZH_en

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@ECPR @Zaryfrank @SongpoYang @jiang_nan_zhu @JunyanJiang @HKUniversity .@NaimBroKhomasi demonstrates how you can create narratives about changing #cleavages among #politicalelites in #Chile and beyond (instead of outputs unintelligible to lay audiences) at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop. @GobiernoUAI

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@ECPR @Zaryfrank @SongpoYang @jiang_nan_zhu @JunyanJiang @HKUniversity Our team member Ivan Fomichev is expanding #US #rollcall data back into time to construct historic #covoting networks at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop on #LLMs and #politicalnetworks. #Americanists: what are the fun things you could do with that?

[China and Russia expert survey @expert_survey]

@ECPR .@Zaryfrank and his coauthors @SongpoYang , @jiang_nan_zhu and @JunyanJiang bring AI agents to the problem of using #LLMs and extracting #politicalnetworks at our @ECPR #JointSession workshop. @HKUniversity