Upcoming Events
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Oct
27
PoliSci Chat: Haifeng Huang, Triumphalism And The Inconvenient Truth: Correcting Inflated National Self-Images In A Rising Power12:15pm
PoliSci Chat: Haifeng Huang, Triumphalism And The Inconvenient Truth: Correcting Inflated National Self-Images In A Rising Power
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus OAK 408
The Department of Political Science presents Haifeng Huang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced, who will present a talk entitled Triumphalism and the Inconvenient Truth: Correcting Inflated National Self-Images in a Rising Power on Wednesday, October 27, 12:15-1:30 PM in OAK 408.
Do people in a rising authoritarian power with pervasive propaganda and information control overestimate their country’s power and popularity in the world? This is an important question since inflated national self-images and bravado can intensify international conflicts and harm a country’s own development. I show with survey 2020 and 2021 that the Chinese public overwhelmingly overestimate China’s soft power and global popularity. Correcting such misperceptions moderates Chinese citizens’ evaluations of China and its governing system and lowers their expectations for the country’s external success. These effects from simple information treatments are at least somewhat durable, and suggest that self-aggrandizement and triumphalism can be meaningfully mitigated.
Haifeng Huang’s current research focuses on topics of information flow and opinion formation in authoritarian settings, especially China, including international information exposure, propaganda, rumor and fake news, and political trust. His has published widely in leading and major political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others. He teaches courses on authoritarian politics, game theory, Chinese politics, and comparative institutions. He was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2018-19 and is currently a non-resident scholar with UCSD’s 21st Century China Center. -
Nov
5
Transnational Identity And Historical Development3:00pm
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Nov
11
IREP Discussion Of Sandy Grade's Red Pedagogy 1:00pm
IREP Discussion Of Sandy Grade's Red Pedagogy
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus 408 Oak
Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics reads and discusses Red Pedagogy, 10th Anniversary ed., with author Sandy Grande -
Nov
15
PoliSci Chats: Joshua Darr (LSU), How Local News Can Slow Polarization12:15pm
PoliSci Chats: Joshua Darr (LSU), How Local News Can Slow Polarization
Monday, November 15th, 2021
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus OAK 408
PoliSci Chats
The Department of Political Science presents:
Joshua Darr,Louisiana State University
How Local News Can Slow Polarization
Monday, November 15, 12:15-1:30 PM
OAK 408 and online via WebEx at https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/michael.morrell
We can bridge our political divisions when we focus on local issues instead of national politics. A local newspaper in California showed this in 2019, when they dropped national politics from the opinion page for one month. Our book, “Home Style Opinion,” analyzes the effects of this experiment: local issues filled the sizable gap left by Trump and Congress, and polarization slowed in the community compared to another city where the newspaper did not change. Though local newspapers are in the middle of a major crisis, they may hold the key to making politics less contentious.
Joshua P. Darr is an assistant professor of political communication in the Manship School of Mass Communication and the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on campaigns and elections, political polarization, and the decline of local news. His published work has appeared in journals such as Political Communication, American Politics Research, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Communication. -
Feb
25
Beyond the Prison: The Politics Of Abolition12:15pm
