Ma Ming is a Postdoctoral researcher at Free University Berlin. His research focuses on political communication, authoritarian politics, and AI governance. Ma utilizes computational methods with large-scale datasets to examine the framing strategies of Russia and China in bloc-building narratives.

Refereed Journal Articles

• 2025 Ming, M., Romanov, D., Libman, A., Kostka, G. (2025) Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese Social Media after the Ukraine Invasion, Political Research Quarterly
• 2025 M.Ma, Daniil Romanov, Genia Kostka and Alexander Libman, “Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese SocialMedia after the Ukraine Invasion"”, Political Research Quarterly, forthcoming, (SSCI)
• 2025 M.Ma, Han Feng andWang Chuyao, “Panacea or Pandora’s Box: Diverse Governance Strategies to Conspiracy Theories and their Consequences in China”, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04350-1 (SSCI)
• 2025 M.Ma, Daniil Romanov, Genia Kostka and Alexander Libman, “Mirrors andMosaics: Deciphering Bloc-Building Narratives in Chinese and RussianMassMedia”, Perspectives on Politics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724002202 (SSCI)
• 2023 M.Ma and Y. Kang, “Weaving the Social Fabric: Party-Led Community Social Capital Building in Rural Guangdong”, China Review, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48740205 (SSCI)
• 2022 M.Ma and Y. Kang, “ConflictManagement through Controlled Elections: ‘Harmonizing Interventions’ by PartyWork Teams in Chinese Village Elections”, China Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.4000/chinaperspectives.14214 (SSCI)
• 2022 M.Ma, Y. Y. Feng and Y. Kang, “Demanding Individuality in Cross-sector Collaboration: The Case of Social Enterprise in Hong Kong”, Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, https://doi.org/10.20899/jpna.8.3.375-398 (ESCI)
• 2020 M.Ma andW. J. Zhuang, “Rural under the Rural Revitalization Strategy – Analysis of village follow-up data based on the 2012–2016 China labor force dynamic survey”, China Public Policy Review (CSSCI, in Chinese)

Book Chapters

• 2020 Zheng, Y., Zheng, Z.,Ma, M. and Zu, Z., “Improving Usability.” E-Government and Information Technology Management: Concepts and Best Practices, 43. Amazon.

Working Papers

• 2024 “Consolidated Control and Diverse Missions: Capacities and Incentives for Lenient Disciplinary Practices by China’s Local-Level Commission for Discipline Inspection”, Under Review
• 2024 “Collaborating Bureaucrats and Experts: An Institutional Logic Perspective on Large Language Model Applications in the Chinese Public Sector”, Under Review