Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence the media. We document a decade-long trend in China towar...

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen, "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity." Is political toxicity— such as online hostility, abuse and intimidation— just a cost of doing business in modern democracy, or does it weigh more heavily on some groups than others?

The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native-majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informin...