Franziska Barbara Keller
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franziska Barbara Keller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franziska Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Keller |
| SIGNATURE | KELLER F B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9728-7447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
China Watchers
Recent debates have raised concerns about how academia and policy makers alike rely on country experts when trying to understand the politics of authoritarian regimes. This study argues that one possible source of bias is the experts’ network of affiliations and interactions with one another and that we therefore should make the social background and networks of country experts more transparent. We implemented this by examining experts on contemp…
Knowing the Wrong Cadre? Networks and Promotions in the Chinese Party-State
When do personal ties matter? Studies of political elite’s rise to power stress the importance of personal ties, but do not consider the possibility of differential effects depending on who one is connected to in elite struggles. We examine how ties formed among Chinese party-state officials influence their career. Our research design provides a strong proxy to account for personal ties: attendance of an exclusive and intensive training program f…
Political Astroturfing on Twitter
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral outcomes and other forms of political behavior. Yet, it is hard to evaluate the scope and effectiveness of political astroturfing without “ground truth” information, such as the verified identity of its agents and instigators. In this paper, we study the South …
Appropriating Democracy
Surveying English, Chinese and Arabic texts, I find that advocates for Islamic or Confucian democracy often use three argumentative strategies. First, they tend to interpret democracy as a procedure to select a government instead of as an ideology or worldview. They, therefore, seem to have adopted a reform policy first suggested in nineteenth-century China: that of keeping the local ‘essence’ (ti) – often interpreted as values – and adopt the fo…
Moving Beyond Factions
Informal connections play an important role in regimes all across the world, but among China's political elite, it is particularly factional affiliation that is said to structure contention over who will rule and who will fall victim to a purge. This article identifies two approaches to measuring factional ties in the literature: the exploratory approach traces alliance ties through qualitative assessment of insider sources, while the structured …
Political Astroturfing on Twitter
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral outcomes and other forms of political behavior. Yet, it is hard to evaluate the scope and effectiveness of political astroturfing without “ground truth” information, such as the verified identity of its agents and instigators. In this paper, we study the South …
Moving Beyond Factions
Informal connections play an important role in regimes all across the world, but among China's political elite, it is particularly factional affiliation that is said to structure contention over who will rule and who will fall victim to a purge. This article identifies two approaches to measuring factional ties in the literature: the exploratory approach traces alliance ties through qualitative assessment of insider sources, while the structured …
Knowing the Wrong Cadre? Networks and Promotions in the Chinese Party-State
When do personal ties matter? Studies of political elite’s rise to power stress the importance of personal ties, but do not consider the possibility of differential effects depending on who one is connected to in elite struggles. We examine how ties formed among Chinese party-state officials influence their career. Our research design provides a strong proxy to account for personal ties: attendance of an exclusive and intensive training program f…
Moving Beyond Factions
Informal connections play an important role in regimes all across the world, but among China's political elite, it is particularly factional affiliation that is said to structure contention over who will rule and who will fall victim to a purge. This article identifies two approaches to measuring factional ties in the literature: the exploratory approach traces alliance ties through qualitative assessment of insider sources, while the structured …
Knowing the Wrong Cadre? Networks and Promotions in the Chinese Party-State
When do personal ties matter? Studies of political elite’s rise to power stress the importance of personal ties, but do not consider the possibility of differential effects depending on who one is connected to in elite struggles. We examine how ties formed among Chinese party-state officials influence their career. Our research design provides a strong proxy to account for personal ties: attendance of an exclusive and intensive training program f…
Political Astroturfing on Twitter
Political astroturfing, a centrally coordinated disinformation campaign in which participants pretend to be ordinary citizens acting independently, has the potential to influence electoral outcomes and other forms of political behavior. Yet, it is hard to evaluate the scope and effectiveness of political astroturfing without “ground truth” information, such as the verified identity of its agents and instigators. In this paper, we study the South …
Appropriating Democracy
Surveying English, Chinese and Arabic texts, I find that advocates for Islamic or Confucian democracy often use three argumentative strategies. First, they tend to interpret democracy as a procedure to select a government instead of as an ideology or worldview. They, therefore, seem to have adopted a reform policy first suggested in nineteenth-century China: that of keeping the local ‘essence’ (ti) – often interpreted as values – and adopt the fo…
China Watchers
Recent debates have raised concerns about how academia and policy makers alike rely on country experts when trying to understand the politics of authoritarian regimes. This study argues that one possible source of bias is the experts’ network of affiliations and interactions with one another and that we therefore should make the social background and networks of country experts more transparent. We implemented this by examining experts on contemp…
Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China (2 works) · Elite (2 works)