Jessica L Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 684655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica L Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7152-8481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 329 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Karen Auman. The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia
Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation
The failures of democracies and democratic institutions in meeting climate challenges have led some scholars and activists to question whether democracy is functional at all in this new world. While some scholars and activists claim that democracy's failures in addressing climate change justify authoritarian governance, these arguments rely on empirical, conceptual, and normative confusions. The authors argue that democracies actually perform bet…
A Reply to Our Critics
This essay identifies four broad themes in the responses--by Ross Mittiga, Elisabeth Ellis, Thea Riofrancos, and Emilie Hafner-Burton and colleagues--to "Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation." First, this essay reiterates the utter seriousness with which the authors take the climate threat and the need for energy transition. Second, it strongly resists the charge that eco-authoritarianism is a strawman. Third, it addresses the critique that the…
Information Politics and Propaganda in Authoritarian Societies
What role does propaganda play in the information politics of authoritarian societies, and what is its relationship to censorship? What have we learned from rival accounts in recent literature about why states produce it? While regimes clearly invest in propaganda believing that it is effective, there is still much to learn about whether, when, and how it actually is effective. We first discuss some of the tensions inherent in distinguishing betw…
Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America
Richard W. Pointer’s Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America, examines an often-overlooked aspect of colonial–Native American relations through the life of Johannes Papunhank, a Munsee prophet and Moravian convert whose deeply held convictions led him to pursue peace in his dealings with colonists and other Native Americans alike. The bulk of his book focuses on the decades surrounding the Seven Years’ War, a pivotal …
Commercial Casualties: Political Boycotts and International Disputes
We explore whether international disputes harm commerce by galvanizing consumer boycotts of foreign products. Boycotts increase the social penalty of owning goods associated with a foreign adversary, offsetting individual incentives to free ride or discount the utility of participation. By harming international commerce, boycotts can help reveal information about resolve and avoid more costly forms of conflict. Using administrative data on the un…
Xuefei Ren, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
Slums amidst Ghost Cities: Incentive and Information Problems in China’s Urbanization
Contrasting elements of China's “urban sickness” are empty new apartment complexes abutting dilapidated but overcrowded structures. While scholarship has explored these issues separately, we show their common presence even in the least likely of cities. Why are ghost cities and slums simultaneously on the rise in China? Analysis of eight of China's “ghostliest” cities and in-depth case studies demonstrate how the pursuit of quantified targets gen…
Domestic Politics, China's Rise, and the Future of the Liberal International Order
With the future of liberal internationalism in question, how will China's growing power and influence reshape world politics? We argue that views of the Liberal International Order (LIO) as integrative and resilient have been too optimistic for two reasons. First, China's ability to profit from within the system has shaken the domestic consensus in the United States on preserving the existing LIO. Second, features of Chinese Communist Party rule …
A Plague on Politics? The Covid Crisis, Expertise, and the Future of Legitimation
Governments rely more and more on experts to manage the increasingly complex problems posed by a growing, diversifying, globalizing world. Surplus technocracy, however, usually comes with deficits of democracy. While especially true in liberal regimes, authoritarian states often face parallel dynamics. Recent trends illustrate how technocratic encroachment on civil society's prerogatives can provoke populist backlash. Such cycles can build toward…
Domestic Politics, China’s Rise, and the Future of the Liberal International Order
Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
In this sweeping account of Native American history in the Southern United States, Gregory D. Smithers lets “Native Southerners drive the story through their words and deeds” (11). Each chapter of Smithers’s book presents an overview of a specific era and details multiple case studies of societies and individuals, the identities they created, and the choices they made in responding to the pressures of their world.Smithers follows a chronological …
Diana Fu, Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China
Seeing ghosts: Parsing China’s “ghost city” controversy
Controversy has arisen in recent years over the creation of so-called “ghost cities” across China. The ghost city term tends to describe large-scale urban areas, sometimes planned as new towns, featuring an abundance of new built space and appearing to also have extremely low tenancy. This article examines key questions related to the ghost city phenomenon, such as: what is a ghost city? Are ghost cities driven by a tendency toward over-supply in…
Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China
Economic statistics inform citizens of general conditions, while central leaders use them to evaluate local officials. Are economic data systematically manipulated? After establishing discrepancies in economic data series cross-nationally, this article examines Chinese sub-national growth data. It leverages variation in the likelihood of manipulation over two dimensions, arguing that politically sensitivedataare more likely to be manipulated at p…
Information Politics in Dictatorships
Political science has made great progress in the study of nondemocratic regime survival in the past 15 years. Democratization is only one threat that such regimes face—indeed, most nondemocratic regimes are replaced by other dictators. How do regimes learn about the threats facing them? Cutting‐edge research has pointed to elite institutions, such as legislatures and politburos, easing information problems among regime insiders. However, the ways…
Central versus local states: Which matters more in affecting China's urban growth
Who uses the Clean Development Mechanism? An empirical analysis of projects in Chinese provinces
Cities, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Regime Survival
How does redistributive policy affect the survival of authoritarian regimes? I argue that redistributive policy in favor of cities, while temporarily reducing urban grievances, in the long-run undermines regime survival by inducing urban concentration. I test the argument using cross-national city population, urban bias, and nondemocratic regime survival data in the post-WWII period. The results show that urban concentration is dangerous for dict…
Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm
A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry's identity as essentially ‘applied neuroscience’. Although not discounting the importance of the brain sciences and psychopharmacology, we argue that psychiatry needs to move beyond the dominance of the current, technological paradigm. This would be more in keeping with the …
Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China
Economic statistics inform citizens of general conditions, while central leaders use them to evaluate local officials. Are economic data systematically manipulated? After establishing discrepancies in economic data series cross-nationally, this article examines Chinese sub-national growth data. It leverages variation in the likelihood of manipulation over two dimensions, arguing that politically sensitivedataare more likely to be manipulated at p…
Domestic Politics, China's Rise, and the Future of the Liberal International Order
With the future of liberal internationalism in question, how will China's growing power and influence reshape world politics? We argue that views of the Liberal International Order (LIO) as integrative and resilient have been too optimistic for two reasons. First, China's ability to profit from within the system has shaken the domestic consensus in the United States on preserving the existing LIO. Second, features of Chinese Communist Party rule …
Cities, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Regime Survival
How does redistributive policy affect the survival of authoritarian regimes? I argue that redistributive policy in favor of cities, while temporarily reducing urban grievances, in the long-run undermines regime survival by inducing urban concentration. I test the argument using cross-national city population, urban bias, and nondemocratic regime survival data in the post-WWII period. The results show that urban concentration is dangerous for dict…
Seeing ghosts: Parsing China’s “ghost city” controversy
Controversy has arisen in recent years over the creation of so-called “ghost cities” across China. The ghost city term tends to describe large-scale urban areas, sometimes planned as new towns, featuring an abundance of new built space and appearing to also have extremely low tenancy. This article examines key questions related to the ghost city phenomenon, such as: what is a ghost city? Are ghost cities driven by a tendency toward over-supply in…
Information Politics and Propaganda in Authoritarian Societies
What role does propaganda play in the information politics of authoritarian societies, and what is its relationship to censorship? What have we learned from rival accounts in recent literature about why states produce it? While regimes clearly invest in propaganda believing that it is effective, there is still much to learn about whether, when, and how it actually is effective. We first discuss some of the tensions inherent in distinguishing betw…
A Plague on Politics? The Covid Crisis, Expertise, and the Future of Legitimation
Governments rely more and more on experts to manage the increasingly complex problems posed by a growing, diversifying, globalizing world. Surplus technocracy, however, usually comes with deficits of democracy. While especially true in liberal regimes, authoritarian states often face parallel dynamics. Recent trends illustrate how technocratic encroachment on civil society's prerogatives can provoke populist backlash. Such cycles can build toward…
Central versus local states: Which matters more in affecting China's urban growth
Who uses the Clean Development Mechanism? An empirical analysis of projects in Chinese provinces
Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation
The failures of democracies and democratic institutions in meeting climate challenges have led some scholars and activists to question whether democracy is functional at all in this new world. While some scholars and activists claim that democracy's failures in addressing climate change justify authoritarian governance, these arguments rely on empirical, conceptual, and normative confusions. The authors argue that democracies actually perform bet…
Commercial Casualties: Political Boycotts and International Disputes
We explore whether international disputes harm commerce by galvanizing consumer boycotts of foreign products. Boycotts increase the social penalty of owning goods associated with a foreign adversary, offsetting individual incentives to free ride or discount the utility of participation. By harming international commerce, boycotts can help reveal information about resolve and avoid more costly forms of conflict. Using administrative data on the un…
Slums amidst Ghost Cities: Incentive and Information Problems in China’s Urbanization
Contrasting elements of China's “urban sickness” are empty new apartment complexes abutting dilapidated but overcrowded structures. While scholarship has explored these issues separately, we show their common presence even in the least likely of cities. Why are ghost cities and slums simultaneously on the rise in China? Analysis of eight of China's “ghostliest” cities and in-depth case studies demonstrate how the pursuit of quantified targets gen…
Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm
A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry's identity as essentially ‘applied neuroscience’. Although not discounting the importance of the brain sciences and psychopharmacology, we argue that psychiatry needs to move beyond the dominance of the current, technological paradigm. This would be more in keeping with the …
Who uses the Clean Development Mechanism? An empirical analysis of projects in Chinese provinces
Cities, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Regime Survival
How does redistributive policy affect the survival of authoritarian regimes? I argue that redistributive policy in favor of cities, while temporarily reducing urban grievances, in the long-run undermines regime survival by inducing urban concentration. I test the argument using cross-national city population, urban bias, and nondemocratic regime survival data in the post-WWII period. The results show that urban concentration is dangerous for dict…
Central versus local states: Which matters more in affecting China's urban growth
Information Politics in Dictatorships
Political science has made great progress in the study of nondemocratic regime survival in the past 15 years. Democratization is only one threat that such regimes face—indeed, most nondemocratic regimes are replaced by other dictators. How do regimes learn about the threats facing them? Cutting‐edge research has pointed to elite institutions, such as legislatures and politburos, easing information problems among regime insiders. However, the ways…
Juking the Stats? Authoritarian Information Problems in China
Economic statistics inform citizens of general conditions, while central leaders use them to evaluate local officials. Are economic data systematically manipulated? After establishing discrepancies in economic data series cross-nationally, this article examines Chinese sub-national growth data. It leverages variation in the likelihood of manipulation over two dimensions, arguing that politically sensitivedataare more likely to be manipulated at p…
Seeing ghosts: Parsing China’s “ghost city” controversy
Controversy has arisen in recent years over the creation of so-called “ghost cities” across China. The ghost city term tends to describe large-scale urban areas, sometimes planned as new towns, featuring an abundance of new built space and appearing to also have extremely low tenancy. This article examines key questions related to the ghost city phenomenon, such as: what is a ghost city? Are ghost cities driven by a tendency toward over-supply in…
Diana Fu, Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China
Domestic Politics, China’s Rise, and the Future of the Liberal International Order
Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
In this sweeping account of Native American history in the Southern United States, Gregory D. Smithers lets “Native Southerners drive the story through their words and deeds” (11). Each chapter of Smithers’s book presents an overview of a specific era and details multiple case studies of societies and individuals, the identities they created, and the choices they made in responding to the pressures of their world.Smithers follows a chronological …
Slums amidst Ghost Cities: Incentive and Information Problems in China’s Urbanization
Contrasting elements of China's “urban sickness” are empty new apartment complexes abutting dilapidated but overcrowded structures. While scholarship has explored these issues separately, we show their common presence even in the least likely of cities. Why are ghost cities and slums simultaneously on the rise in China? Analysis of eight of China's “ghostliest” cities and in-depth case studies demonstrate how the pursuit of quantified targets gen…
Domestic Politics, China's Rise, and the Future of the Liberal International Order
With the future of liberal internationalism in question, how will China's growing power and influence reshape world politics? We argue that views of the Liberal International Order (LIO) as integrative and resilient have been too optimistic for two reasons. First, China's ability to profit from within the system has shaken the domestic consensus in the United States on preserving the existing LIO. Second, features of Chinese Communist Party rule …
A Plague on Politics? The Covid Crisis, Expertise, and the Future of Legitimation
Governments rely more and more on experts to manage the increasingly complex problems posed by a growing, diversifying, globalizing world. Surplus technocracy, however, usually comes with deficits of democracy. While especially true in liberal regimes, authoritarian states often face parallel dynamics. Recent trends illustrate how technocratic encroachment on civil society's prerogatives can provoke populist backlash. Such cycles can build toward…
Xuefei Ren, Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America
Richard W. Pointer’s Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America, examines an often-overlooked aspect of colonial–Native American relations through the life of Johannes Papunhank, a Munsee prophet and Moravian convert whose deeply held convictions led him to pursue peace in his dealings with colonists and other Native Americans alike. The bulk of his book focuses on the decades surrounding the Seven Years’ War, a pivotal …
Commercial Casualties: Political Boycotts and International Disputes
We explore whether international disputes harm commerce by galvanizing consumer boycotts of foreign products. Boycotts increase the social penalty of owning goods associated with a foreign adversary, offsetting individual incentives to free ride or discount the utility of participation. By harming international commerce, boycotts can help reveal information about resolve and avoid more costly forms of conflict. Using administrative data on the un…
A Reply to Our Critics
This essay identifies four broad themes in the responses--by Ross Mittiga, Elisabeth Ellis, Thea Riofrancos, and Emilie Hafner-Burton and colleagues--to "Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation." First, this essay reiterates the utter seriousness with which the authors take the climate threat and the need for energy transition. Second, it strongly resists the charge that eco-authoritarianism is a strawman. Third, it addresses the critique that the…
Information Politics and Propaganda in Authoritarian Societies
What role does propaganda play in the information politics of authoritarian societies, and what is its relationship to censorship? What have we learned from rival accounts in recent literature about why states produce it? While regimes clearly invest in propaganda believing that it is effective, there is still much to learn about whether, when, and how it actually is effective. We first discuss some of the tensions inherent in distinguishing betw…
Karen Auman. The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia
Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation
The failures of democracies and democratic institutions in meeting climate challenges have led some scholars and activists to question whether democracy is functional at all in this new world. While some scholars and activists claim that democracy's failures in addressing climate change justify authoritarian governance, these arguments rely on empirical, conceptual, and normative confusions. The authors argue that democracies actually perform bet…
Political science (18 works) · Politics (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · China (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Democracy (7 works)