Erin Baggott Carter

About

Erin Baggott Carter is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California and a faculty affiliate at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, a M.Sc. in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford, and an A.B. in Government and Economics (magna cum laude) from Harvard College.

Dr. Carter's research focuses on Chinese politics, propaganda, and foreign policy. Her first book, Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief (Cambridge University Press, 2023), explores how autocrats use propaganda worldwide. It won the William Riker Prize for the Best Book in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association and the Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award from the International Journal of Press/Politics. The book also received honorable mentions for the Greggory Luebbert Award for the Best Book in Comparative Politics and the Democracy and Autocracy Section Best Book Award.

Dr. Carter is currently working on a book on how the United States and China influence each other’s domestic politics to secure their national security goals. Her other work has appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, China Quarterly, International Interactions, and Foreign Affairs. Her research has been featured by several media platforms, including the New York Times, Economist, and Little Red Podcast.