Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter speaking on "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief"
The Hoover Institution announces a new seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, co-organized by Steven J. Davis and Justin Grimmer. These seminars will feature applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning methods to text as data to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields.
Our 9th session features Erin Carter and Brett Carter speaking on Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief on Friday, February 25, 2022 from 9:00AM – 10:30AM PT.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Erin Baggott Carter is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. She is also a non-resident scholar at UCSD's 21st Century China Center. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and has previously held fellowships at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Dr. Carter's research focuses on Chinese politics, propaganda, and US-China relations. Her first book, Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), explores how political institutions determine propaganda strategies with a dataset of eight million articles in six languages drawn from state-run newspapers in nearly 70 countries. She is currently working on a second book project, Changing Each Other: US-China Relations in the Shadow of Domestic Politics, which explores how domestic politics render cooperation more elusive in the US-China bilateral relationship. Her other work has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, and International Interactions, and has been featured by a number of media platforms, including the New York Times and the Little Red Podcast.
Brett Carter is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, and has previously held fellowships at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Brett's research focuses on politics in the world's autocracies. His first book, Propaganda in Autocracies (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), marshals a range of empirical evidence to probe the politics of autocratic propaganda. His second book project, Autocracy in Post-Cold War Africa, explores how Central Africa's autocrats are learning to survive despite the nominally democratic institutions they confront and the international pressure that occasionally makes repression costly. His work has appeared in, among other platforms, the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, and Journal of Democracy, and been featured in The New York Times and on NPR’s Radio Lab.
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