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To Repress or to Co‐opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance
In: American journal of political science, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 309-325
ISSN: 1540-5907
AbstractThis article studies the consequences of digital surveillance in dictatorships. I first develop an informational theory of repression and co‐optation. I argue that digital surveillance resolves dictators' information problem of not knowing individual citizens' true anti‐regime sentiments. By identifying radical opponents, digital surveillance enables dictators to substitute targeted repression for nonexclusive co‐optation to forestall coordinated uprisings. My theory implies that as digital surveillance technologies advance, we should observe a rise in targeted repression and a decline in universal redistribution. Using a difference‐in‐differences design that exploits temporal variation in digital surveillance systems among Chinese counties, I find that surveillance increases local governments' public security expenditure and arrests of political activists but decreases public goods provision. My theory and evidence suggest that improvements in governments' information make citizens worse off in dictatorships.
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Linear and Nonlinear Causality between Renewable Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in the USA
In: Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci, časopis za ekonomsku teoriju i praksu - Proceedings of Rijeka Faculty of Economics, Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2016, pp. 309-332
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In: Xinan Zhengfa Daxue Xuebao/Journal of SWUPL, Band 10, Heft 6, S. 27-35
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An assessment on the new impetus of green energy development and its impact on climate change: a non-linear perspective
In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR
ISSN: 1614-7499
Differential public support and the independence of anti-corruption agencies
In: European political science review: EPSR, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 72-93
ISSN: 1755-7747
AbstractSpecialized anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) aim to address corruption problems when conventional institutional mechanisms are dysfunctional. Yet, we still lack thorough understanding of the conditions that enable ACAs to withstand undue influences of the overarching political regime. Informed by the judicial politics literature, we examine the value of public opinion in empowering ACAs. Leveraging the evolving political conditions of Hong Kong, we argue that a lack of public support for other government organs offers opportunities for an ACA to distinguish itself from the rest of the regime and establish operational independence. We find that a signature ACA of Hong Kong, created by the British colonial government, has been uniquely sensitive to public complaints of corruption. The agency is the most responsive when other government branches are perceived to be lacking integrity. Also, negative appraisals of the political regime encourage the ACA's institutional functions and increase the degree of enforcement discretion entrusted to it. Our findings suggest a mechanism of ACA empowerment whereby the public is committed to sustaining agency independence because of their distrust and the unpopularity of other government organs. Therefore, potential institutional threats posed by an unpopular regime to the ACA may actually strengthen the latter's power and autonomy.
Differential Public Support and the Independence of Anti-corruption Agencies
In: European Political Science Review (forthcoming)
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State finance, merchant stake, and foreign interests: The certificate system in the Chinese salt administration, 1912–1949
In: Business history, S. 1-22
ISSN: 1743-7938
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Do Non-damaging Earthquakes Shake Mortgage Lenders' Risk Perception?
In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Band 117, Heft 102760
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The impact of internet access on research output - a cross-country study
In: Information economics and policy, Band 56, S. 100914
ISSN: 0167-6245
What Happens When Airbnb Comes to the Neighborhood: The Impact of Home-sharing on Neighborhood Investment
In: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Band 88
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Concealed Risks of FinTech and Goal-Oriented Responsive Regulation: China's Background and Global Perspective
In: Asian journal of law and society, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 305-324
ISSN: 2052-9023
AbstractThis article provides critical and analytical views on legal regulation to achieve a balance between FinTech innovation, risk prevention, and financial stability, by focusing on the trend of FinTech firms entering the financial-services industry and the associated regulatory and legal challenges that are already arising in China. It adopts a balanced approach as a theoretical-analysis perspective, weighing various considerations, and proposes the policy option of FinTech regulation under the principle of interest balance. The analysis aims to contribute new insights to an ongoing debate in China on the relationship between legal and regulatory reform, FinTech innovation, and risk prevention. This article argues that legal challenges, rather than technical problems, remain the key obstacles to effective FinTech regulation. Our proposed hypothesis seeks to explain how a legal regulation achieves balancing the competing interests between FinTech innovation, risk prevention, and financial stability in the booming of China's FinTech. Finally, this article proposes the implementation of goal-oriented responsive regulation by improving the legal framework of FinTech regulatory regimes through policy option.