Hello! I'm here!

Screenshot of the latest Authoritarianism 101 Newsletter on Substack, including a photo of Roger Griffin's book "Fascism", which offers a working definition of the term.

I've started a Substack where "translate" political science concepts and theories. I also lean heavy on reading recommendations.

My latest newsletter is a 3-minute read defining "fascism", a word that modern fascists unironically reject.

#politicalscience #science
open.substack.com/pub/theopenb...

Thank you! Have a lovely rest of the day!

Hey Emily! I'm a PhD candidate researching Chinese policymaking and modern authoritarianism. You can find me over on Google Scholar:

scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

On socials, I share free academic resources, so I'd really appreciate being added to the science🧪feed!

Bad timing for this question... I've been in a horrible reading slump since summer. Barely been able to read anything, aside from work-related stuff.

When reading feels like a reward or a break from real life, it's easy to read a lot... When it feels like an obligation, however...

I'm open to people outside my niche!

😂

Who should I be following on here?

I care about holding people in public office accountable, protest rights, freedom of information and how authoritarianism functions within otherwise-democratic regimes.

Hit me with the recommendations.

If you're interested in some of the research behind my opinion in the Financial Times here's a snippet of my PhD project, published in the China Quarterly last year:

Policy Experimentation under Pressure in Contemporary China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3PzMWAU

China’s zombie car plant problem The terminal decline of factories devoted to the internal combustion engine presents a challenge for Beijing

Got quoted in the @FT today saying it's not easy to be a local government official in China right now.

www.ft.com/content/f197...

Apparently I've tricked social media algorithms into giving me all the cute, nerdy linguistic content for the two and a half languages I speak.

This one's from Middle English:

This isn't a "social media isn't always awful" account... But sometimes it just hits in all the right places:

"Indian police clear a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after 8 months in bird lockup."

A photo of a no-parking sign in Taipei, it says 請勿停車, 長得帥也不可以 (No parking, not even if you are handsome" credit to @chowleen on X

Social media isn't always awful.