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Daniela Stockmann
Tenured Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, Leiden University
Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 3867
Fax: +31 (0)71 527 3815
E-mail: dstockmann@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Website: www.daniestockmann.net
APPOINTMENTS
EDUCATION
SPECIALIZATION
AND INTEREST
FELLOWSHIPS
AND HONORS
Leiden University, Leiden/The Netherlands
Tenured Assistant Professor (UD 1), Department of Political Science,
May 2011 –
Assistant Professor (UD 2), Department of Political Science, January 2007 –
April 2011.
Research Associate, Modern East Asia Research Centre, January 2007 –
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI/US
Ph.D. Political Science, April 2007
Dissertation: Propaganda for Sale: The Impact of Newspaper
Commercialization on News Content and Public Opinion in China
School of Oriental and African Studies, London/UK
M.A. Chinese Studies, (Distinction), December 2001
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY/US
B.A. Political Science, (Magna Cum Laude), May 2000
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich/Germany
Intermediate Exam, Political Science, July 1999
• Chinese politics
• Comparative politics of developing and transitional states
• Political communication and public opinion research
• Research methodology
2011 AMT Research Funding Grant for workshop “China’s New Strategies of
Authoritarian Rule,” Leiden University, € 1,900.
2009 Modern East Asia Research Centre Endowment Award for workshop on
Media in Contemporary Chinese Politics held at the Fairbank Center for
Chinese Studies of Harvard University, Leiden University, € 2,000
2008 KNAW Joint Research Project, Principal Investigator, "Advertising Politics:
Rationales, Content, and Effects of Public Service Advertising in the
Chinese Media,” Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), €
45,415.
2008 7 th Framework Programme of the Commission of the European Union (FP-7),
Co-Investigator, "Chinese Views of the EU: Disaggregating Chinese Perceptions
of the EU and the Implications for the EU's China Policy," € 1,430,800.
2007 Tim Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award for APSA 2006 paper entitled
“The Chinese News Media and Public Opinion: Adaptation of a
Propaganda Machine or Instrument for Political Change?,” Political
Communication Division, American Political Science Association.
2006 One-Term Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan.
2005 Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan.
2005 E. Eugene Shelley Award, University of Michigan.
2005 Rackham Discretionary Fund, University of Michigan.
2005 Taiwan Familiarization Program, ROC Ministry of Education and Cheng-Chi
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University.
2004 The Peking University Harvard-Yenching Award, Harvard-Yenching Institute.
2004 Center for Chinese Studies Field Research Support, University of Michigan.
2002 Center for Chinese Studies Endowment Award, University of Michigan.
FELLOWSHIPS 2001 Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan.
AND HONORS 2000 Bernard Buckman Fellowship, School of Oriental and African Studies.
(continued) 1999 Genesee Scholarship, University of Rochester.
1999 - 2003 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation).
PUBLICATIONS
Book:
Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China. In press with
Cambridge University Press, Communication, Society and Politics Series.
In peer-reviewed journals:
“Greasing the Reels: Advertising as a Means of Campaigning on Chinese
Television,” The China Quarterly, Special Section on Chinese Media, 208,
December 2011: 851-869.
“Race to the Bottom: Media Marketization and Increasing Negativity Toward the
United States in China,” Political Communication, Special Issue on Political
Communication in China, 28(3), August 2011: 268-290.
“Remote Control: How the Media Sustains Authoritarian Rule in China” (with Mary
E. Gallagher). Comparative Political Studies, 44(4), April 2011: 436-467.
“Who Believes Propaganda? Media Effects during the Anti-Japanese Protests in
Beijing.” The China Quarterly, 202, June 2010: 269-289.
“One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Measuring News Reception East and West.” The
Chinese Journal of Communication, 2(2), July 2009: 140-157.
In edited volumes:
“Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans.” In Lisheng Dong,
Zhengxu Wang, Henk Dekker, eds, In Press. Chinese Views of the EU: Public
Support for a Strong Relation. London: Routledge.
“What Information Does the Public Demand? Getting the News during the 2005
Anti-Japanese Protests.” In Susan Shirk, ed, 2011. Changing Media,
Changing China. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Information Overload? Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing Chinese Media
Content.” In Allen Carlson, Mary Gallagher, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Melanie
Manion, eds, 2010. Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods,
and Field Strategies. New York: Cambridge University Press.
“Chinese Attitudes Toward the United States and Americans,” (with A. Iain
Johnston). In Peter Katzenstein and Robert Keohane, eds, 2007. Anti-
Americanisms in World Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Policy Paper:
“Media Influence on Ethnocentrism towards Europeans.” Policy Paper Series on
Chinese Views of the EU, funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the
Commission of the European Union (FP-7), 2011.
Other articles and reviews:
Book Review. Martin King Whyte, Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of
Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China. Journal of
Chinese Political Science, 17(2), June 2012.
“Gongyi Guanggao de Yingxiangli” (The Influence of Public Service
Announcements). Zhongguo Gongyi Guanggao Nianjian (China Yearbook
for Public Service Announcements), 2011. (In Chinese)
Book Review. Young Nam Cho, Local People's Congresses in China: Development
and Transition. Perspectives on Politics, December, 2010: 1247-1248.
“Google en oeroude duiven: Hoe de publieke opinie in China wordt gestuurd”
(Google and Ancient Pigeons: How Public Opinion is Guided in China). China
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Nu (China Now), 2, Zomer, 2010: 22-25. (In Dutch)
Book Review. Haiqing Yu, Media and Cultural Transformation in China. China
Information, 4(1), March, 2010: 114-115.
Media Appearances:
Interviews with NRC-Handelsblad, March 26, 2008, NRC-Next, March 28, 2008,
Weekend Avisen, December 19, 2008.
INVITED TALKS
“The Chinese Internet Audience.” The Chinese Renaissance in Europe, EU-China
Year of Intercultural Dialogue, The British Academy, London, March 2012.
“Media Citizenship in China: Who Participates in Public Discourse?,” Workshop on
Creative Forms of Public Participation in China: From Everyday Politics to
Media Agendas, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Boston, June 2011.
“Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans in China,” University
College Utrecht, Utrecht, March 2011.
“Greasing the Reels: Advertising as a Means of Campaigning on Chinese
Television,” Workshop “Reaching for Hearts and Minds: Governmentality and
the Power of the State in China,” Lund University, Lund, December 2010.
“Media Effects on Chinese Attitudes Towards Japan,” The ‘Long Arc’ of Sino-
Japanese Relations: Perspectives on War, Cooperation, and Conflict Across
Three Eras, University of Oxford, Oxford, June 2010.
“Propaganda for Sale: The Impact of Media Commercialization on Public Opinion in
China.” Lecture delivered at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, May
2010.
“Chinese Attitudes Toward the United States and Americans,” Breaking Down the
Walls, Arizona State University, Phoenix, April 2010.
“Corporate Social Responsibility with Chinese Characteristics: Advertising as a
Means of Campaigning on Chinese Television,” Chinese La w and Society
Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, April 2010.
"Information Overload? Improving Content Analysis in Chinese Media Research”
(Xinxi Guozai Shidai Ruhe Kexue Chuli Yanjiu Ziliao). Lecture delivered at
Tsinghua University, Beijing, December 2009. (In Chinese).
"Trends in the Study of Chinese Media in the United States” (Meiguo Xuejie dui
Zhongguo Meiti Yanjiu de Qushi Tanxi). Lecture delivered at Fudan
University, Shanghai, December 2009. (In Chinese)
"Information Overload? Improving Content Analysis in Chinese Media Research”
(Xinxi Guozai Shidai Ruhe Kexue Chuli Yanjiu Ziliao). Lecture delivered at
Communication University of China, Beijing, November 2009. (In Chinese)
"Trends in the Study of Chinese Media in the United States” (Meiguo Xuejie dui
Zhongguo Meiti Yanjiu de Qushi Tanxi). Lecture delivered at Communication
University of China, Beijing, November 2009.
“Political Voices in the Chinese Press: Does Media Commercialization Change the
Position of the Authoritarian State?” Workshop on Media in Contemporary
Chinese Politics, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Boston, April 2009.
“Who Believes Propaganda? Media Effects during the Anti-Japanese Protests in
Beijing.” Chinese Politics Workshop at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
April 2009.
“Propaganda for Sale: Choosing a Research Question, Hypotheses, and
Research Design.” Lecture delivered at the Asia Media Research Center,
Communication University of China, Beijing, November 2008.
“Propaganda for Sale: Choosing a Research Question, Hypotheses, and
Research Design.” Lecture delivered at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
University, Frankfurt, June 2008.
“Propaganda for Sale: The Impact of Media Commercialization on Public Opinion in
China.” Lecture delivered at the Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden
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University, Leiden, November 2007.
“Propaganda for Sale: Choosing a Research Question, Hypotheses, and
Research Design.” Lecture delivered at the Social Science Methodology
Workshop, School of International Studies, Peking University, Beijing, July
2007.
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
(last three years)
TEACHING
“Crisis Management in an Authoritarian Regime: Media Effects during the Sichuan
Earthquake” ( with Pierre Landry). Workshop on China’s New Strategies of
Authoritarian Rule, Leiden 2012.
“Legitimate Authoritarianism?” Workshop Observing Political Legitimacy, Leiden
2011.
“Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China.” CCS 50 th Anniversary
Conference in Honor of Kenneth Lieberthal, Center for Chinese Studies of
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2011.
“Advertising Chinese Politics: How Public Service Advertising Prime and Alter
Political Trust in China” ( with Ashley Esarey and Jie Zhang). Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association, Seattle 2011.
“Support for Propaganda: Perceptions of Public Service Advertising among Beijing
Residents” ( with Ashley Esarey and Jie Zhang). APSA Political
Communication Division Pre-Conference, Seattle 2011.
“Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans in China.” Disaggregating
Chinese Perceptions of the EU and its Policy Implications for the EU’s China
Policy. Chatham House, London, February 2011.
“Advertising Chinese Politics: The Effects of Public Service Announcements in
Urban China” (with Ashley Esarey and Jie Zhang). Association for Social
Science Research on China (ASC), Würzburg, November 2010.
“Advertising Chinese Politics: The Effects of Public Service Announcements in
Urban China” (with Ashley Esarey and Jie Zhang). APSA Political
Communication Division Pre-Conference, Washington, DC, September 2010.
“Advertising Chinese Politics: The Effects of Public Service Announcements in
Urban China” (with Ashley Esarey). 2010 Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Asian Studies, Philadelphia, April 2010.
At Leiden University:
“MA Thesis Seminar in Comparative Politics,” Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring
2012.
“BA Thesis Seminar in Political Psychology,” Spring 2008.
“Political Reform in East Asia” (formerly “Chinese Government and Politics”),
graduate course, Winter 2007, Spring 2008.
“Public Opinion and the Media,” undergraduate course, Spring 2008, Winter
2008, Winter 2011.
“Comparative Political Communication,” graduate and advanced undergraduate
course, Winter 2007, Spring 2008, Winter 2008, Spring 2012.
PhD Thesis Supervision (Co-Promoter): Li Zheng, Pan Wen, Jin Xi, Ma Xinrong.
MA Thesis Supervision: Janet van Kling was awarded 2008 Best MA Thesis
Awards by both, Faculty of Social Sciences and Department of Political
Science, Leiden University.
Graduate Student Instructor, the University of Michigan:
“China’s Evolution under Communism,” undergraduate course, Professor
Kenneth Lieberthal (PS 339, AS 428, Soc 426), Fall 2002 and Fall 2003.
“American Political Processes,” upper-level writing course, Professor Arthur
Lupia (PS 460/311), University of Michigan, Winter 2003.
Training for Graduate Student Instructors, Fall 2002 and Winter 2003.
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SERVICE
ADDITIONAL
WORKING
EXPERIENCE
Organizer (with Yuen Yuen Ang and Mayling Birney): Workshop on China’s New
Strategies of Authoritarian Rule, Leiden University, February 24, 2012.
Organizer of Special Section on Chinese Media, published in The China
Quarterly, 208, December 2011.
Co-organizer (with Ashley Esarey and Mary E. Gallagher): Workshop on Media in
Contemporary Chinese Politics, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard
University, April 25, 2009.
Award Committees: Alexander George Book Award Committee, International
Society for Political Psychology, 2008-2009; Best Graduate Student Paper
Award Committee, Political Communication Section, American Political Science
Association, 2008-2009.
Co-Section Chair: Political Communication, 2008 Meeting of the International
Society for Political Psychology.
Reviewer: Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Asia Policy, China
Information, American Political Science Review, International Journal of
Press/Politics, China Quarterly, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, China
Aktuell, Information Society, China Journal, Political Behavior, Journal of
Chinese Political Science.
Member: American Political Science Association, American Association for Asian
Studies, American European Consortium for Political Research, International
Society for Political Psychology.
At Leiden University:
MIRD Admissions Committee, March 2009 – Present. Chair since October 2011.
Public Relations and Enrollment Committee, August 2010 – Present.
Research Committee, April 2007 – June 2009.
MIRD Education Committee, March 2008 – June 2009.
Faculty Respresentative of the Ph.D. Seminar, February 2008 – April 2008.
Search Committee, October – November 2007; May – June 2011.
Honours Program for advanced undergraduate students in Political Science and
Public Administration, co-organizer with Henk Wagenaar, 2007 / 2008.
At the University of Michigan:
Graduate Admissions Committee, January - April 2004
Journalist, Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Bavarian Broadcasting, Munich/Germany,
October 1997 - August 2000.
Project Management Assistant, Hanns-Seidel Foundation Development Aid
Project, Weifang, Shandong/PRC, March-April 1998.
LANGUAGES
Mandarin, fluent speaker
- Five years of formal instruction
- Princeton Program in Beijing 2002
- Inter-University Program at
Tsinghua University, Fall 2004
German, native speaker
English, fluent speaker
French, conversational proficiency
Dutch, conversational proficiency
Latin, translation skills
REFERENCES
Kenneth G. Lieberthal, klieberthal@brookings.edu (Dissertation Committee Chair)
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan (emerited)
Mary E. Gallagher, metg@umich.edu
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Donald R. Kinder, drkinder@umich.edu
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Mark Tessler, tessler@umich.edu
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
A. Iain Johnston, johnston@fas.harvard.edu
Department of Government, Harvard University
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