Peer-reviewed Publications
Propaganda
Huang, Haifeng. 2015. "Propaganda as Signaling." Comparative Politics 47(4): 419-437. (Appendix here)
Huang, Haifeng. 2018. “The Pathology of Hard Propaganda.” Journal of Politics 80(3):1034-1038.
Huang, Haifeng, and Nicholas Cruz. 2022. “Propaganda, Presumed Influence, and Collective Protest.” Political Behavior 44(4): 1789–1812.
International Information Exposure
Huang, Haifeng. 2015. "International Knowledge and Domestic Evaluations in a Changing Society: The Case of China." American Political Science Review 109(3): 613–634. （中文版）
Huang, Haifeng. 2017. "Who Wants to Leave China?" Journal of East Asian Studies 17(2): 191-213.
Huang, Haifeng, and Yao-Yuan Yeh. 2019. "Information from Abroad: Foreign Media, Selective Exposure, and Political Support in China." British Journal of Political Science 49(2): 611-636.
Huang, Haifeng. 2021. “From ‘the Moon Is Rounder Abroad’ to ‘Bravo, My Country’: How China Misperceives the World.” Studies in Comparative International Development 56: 112–130.
Misinformation, Misperceeption, and “Fake News”
Huang, Haifeng. 2017. "A War of (Mis)Information: The Political Effects of Rumors and Rumor Rebuttals in an Authoritarian Country." British Journal of Political Science 47(2): 283-312.
Wang, Chengli, and Haifeng Huang. 2021. “When ‘Fake News’ Becomes Real: The Consequences of False Government Denials in an Authoritarian Country.” Comparative Political Studies 54(5): 753–778.
“Toolbox of Interventions against Online Misinformation and Manipulation” (with Anastasia Kozyreva, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Stefan Herzog, Ullrich Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig et al.). Forthcoming. Nature Human Behaviour.
Political Trust
Nicholson, Stephen, and Haifeng Huang. 2023. “Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China.” American Political Science Review 117(3): 1158-1165.
Huang, Haifeng, Chanita Intawan, and Stephen Nicholson. 2023. “In Government We Trust: Implicit Political Trust and Regime Support in China.” Perspectives on Politics 21(4): 1357-1375.
Huang, Haifeng, Chanita Intawan, and Stephen Nicholson. 2024. “Political Trust and Public Support for Propaganda.” Research & Politics.
Overconfidence
Huang, Haifeng, and Xinsheng Liu. 2018. “Historical Knowledge and National Identity: Evidence from China.” Research and Politics 5(3): 1-8.
Political Economy and Formal Modeling
Huang, Haifeng. 2010. "Electoral Competition when Some Candidates Lie and Others Pander." Journal of Theoretical Politics 22(3): 333-358.
Huang, Haifeng. 2013. "Signal Left, Turn Right: Central Rhetoric and Local Reform in China." Political Research Quarterly 66(2): 292-305.
Huang, Haifeng. 2016. "Personal Character or Social Expectation: A Formal Analysis of 'Suzhi'." Journal of Contemporary China 25(102): 908-922.
Huang, Haifeng, S. Boranbay-Akan, and L. Huang. 2019. "Media, Protest Diffusion, and Authoritarian Resilience." Political Science Research and Methods 7(1): 23-42.
Working Papers and work in progress
Triumphalism and the Inconvenient Truth: Correcting National Overconfidence in a Rising Power
The Sound of Silence: Championing Democracy in an Authoritarian Society.
Regime Competence and Media Freedom in Non-Democracies
Disaster, Propaganda, and Resistance
Public Writings
“How Information Bubble Drives the Chinese Public’s Views of China’s Global Standing and Fuels Grassroots Nationalism.” UCSD China Data Lab Blog. December 16, 2020.
“China is also relying on propaganda to tackle the covid-19 crisis.” The Monkey Cage, Washington Post. March 11, 2020.
“Pay for your Facebook posts?” The Economic Times. February 13, 2019 (with Chirantan Chatterjee).
"What a Tragic Traffic Incident Says About Chinese Social Ethics." Sixth Tone. June 16, 2017.
"In China, rumors are flying about David Dao's alleged $140 million settlement from United Airlines." The Monkey Cage,Washington Post. May 10, 2017.