Celina Su reflecting on the simultaneous emergence of participatory budgeting and direct democracy, and her experience of Occupy Wall Street (and the wider movement of the squares) in the wake of the Great Recession. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

The WP was coauthored by @zhexunmo.bsky.social, @katharina-kaeppel.bsky.social, Carsten Schröder & Li Yang, and is part of the Stone Center Working Paper Series, a searchable collection of WPs on topics such as China, mobility, wealth inequality, unions, and economic policy.

While factual information modestly improves perceptions of FDI’s economic benefits, none of the treatments meaningfully shift deeper, ideologically anchored attitudes toward Chinese investment, underscoring the limits of informational interventions in reshaping entrenched biases.

German respondents substantially overestimate the scale of Chinese investment—believing it accounts for about 30% of total inward FDI, compared to an actual share of about 1%—and evaluate it significantly less favorably than investment from other EU countries or the U.S.

Among their findings: education spending per child in Sub-Saharan Africa is about 3% of European/North American levels, a drop from 4% in 1950. The WP is coauthored by @nitin-k-bharti.bsky.social, Amory Gethin, @markjmn.bsky.social, @zhexunmo.bsky.social, @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, & Li Yang.