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Contact Information
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and International Relations
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Email: baggott@usc.edu
Prof. Baggott Carter is also a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a non-resident scholar at the UCSD 21st Century China Center. She has previously held fellowships at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and Center for International Security and Cooperation. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.
Prof. Carter's research focuses on Chinese politics and propaganda. Her first book, Propaganda in Autocracies (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) explores how political institutions determine propaganda strategies with an original dataset of eight million articles in six languages drawn from state-run newspapers in nearly 70 countries. She is currently working on a book on how domestic politics influence US-China relations. Her other work has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, and International Interactions. Her work has been featured by a number of media platforms, including the New York Times and the Little Red Podcast.
Click here for her personal website.
Video:
How Chinese lobbying affects outcomes in democracies (July 2021)
How Chinese lobbying affects outcomes in democracies (July 2021)
Social media censorship and propaganda (at 38 minute mark, April 2018)
Chinese coverage of the U.S. presidential election and the U.S. Congress and U.S.-China Relations (September 2016)
Featured Articles
January 4, 2024
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 4:00pm PST
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 4:00pm
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?