How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression

• p. 18 References

  Lohmann, Susanne. 2002. “Collective Action Cascades

• p. 7 Central Hypothesis

  Kuran (1989) and Lohmann (2002)

Only the authors can say what is right here.

Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: Journal of Economic Surveys volume 14(5) was published in 2000. The page images show 2002 in both the reference list (p18, crop C031-a) and the text (p7, crop C031-b), so the paper is consistent with itself. Only the authors or the journal record can settle the year.

Second check: another model agreed

• p. 12 Results, text on Figure 8

  Panel (a) of Figure 8 reports

• p. 12 Figure 8

  Content of Censored Posts by Topic Area

Judge's note: Page 12 image: Figure 8 has a left and a right sub-plot with no panel labels. The intended panel (the left one, with collective-action events) can be inferred, so the impact is minor.

Second check: another model agreed

• p. 13 End of Results

  First we offer two examples, not associated with collective action potential events

• p. 13 Results, introducing the example posts

  First we offer two examples, not associated with collective action potential events, of posts not censored

Judge's note: Page 13 introduces the third post with 'Finally ... again without being censored', so it belongs to the same series. The announced count is off by one; this is a wording slip.

Second check: another model agreed

• p. 16 Appendix B

  We adapt and extend this method for our purposes in four steps.

Only the authors can say what is right here.

Judge's note: Page 16 image: the steps are First (unicode), Second (punctuation and character dropping), an aside on chunking that was not used, and 'And finally' (Bayes). The count of four could only be reached by splitting step 2 or counting the chunking aside. This is ambiguous, so it is a query for the authors.

Second check: another model agreed

• p. 3 Types of Censorship, homophone example

  “harmonious society.’

Judge's note: The crop of page 3 shows an opening double quote and a closing single quote.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 8 Results

  a environmental activist

• p. 3 Types of Censorship

  censors read post by hand

• p. 15 Concluding remarks

  a formal model in which an authoritarian regimes

• p. 8 Chen Fei paragraph

  a environmental activist who

Judge's note: All three phrases are visible in the crops of pages 3, 8 and 15.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 4 Figure 1(b)

  bbs.voc.com.cn 5

Judge's note: The crop shows both labels truncated at the right border of the published figure. This is not an extraction artefact.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 9 Results, last paragraph

  the volume bursts where associated with any localized

• p. 9 Results, Figure 6 discussion

  none of the volume bursts where associated with any localized

Judge's note: The crop of page 9 shows 'where'.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 9 Figure 5 discussion

  Censorship in these examples are high

Judge's note: The crop of page 9 confirms the wording.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 15 Appendix A

  Jon Hunstman

• p. 9 Figure 4 label

  Jon Hunstman Steps Down as Ambassador to China

Only the authors can say what is right here.

Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: the ambassador's surname is spelled Huntsman. Both the page 15 appendix and the page 9 Figure 4 label print 'Hunstman'.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 10 Figure 5(a) annotation

  for Evironmental Lottery

Judge's note: Page 10 image: the annotation is spelled 'Evironmental'. The panel caption '(a) Chen Fei's Environmental Lottery' spells it correctly.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 15 Appendix A, High

  Lichuan protests over the death of Rao Jianxin

• p. 14 Results example

  the local leader Ran Jianxin

• p. 14 Results, censored pro-state post

  the local leader Ran Jianxin, whose death in police custody triggered protests in Lichuan

• p. 15 Appendix A, High topics

  Lichuan protests over the death of Rao

Judge's note: Page 14 text reads 'Ran Jianxin' twice, and the quoted Chinese post gives 冉建新 (Ran). Appendix A on page 15 reads 'Rao Jianxin'. The same person is spelled two ways.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 15 Appendix A, Medium

  U.S. policy of quantitiative

• p. 18 References, Teiwes 1979

  Retification

• p. 18 References, Perry 2002

  Armork, NY

• p. 18 References, Przeworski et al.

  Poltical

Judge's note: All four forms are visible in the crops of pages 15 and 18. Two corrections rely on outside knowledge: the publisher's town is Armonk and the intended word is Rectification.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 15 Concluding remarks

  in the content of real-world events

Judge's note: The crop of page 15 confirms the wording; 'content' does not fit the sentence.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 15 Concluding remarks

  one of the input in- stitutions. Nathan (2003) identifies as an important source of authoritarian resilience

Judge's note: The crop of page 15 confirms the punctuation.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 17 Appendix C

  Bo, the son one of the eight elders of the CCP

• p. 17 Appendix C, Bo Xilai paragraph

  Bo, the son one of the eight elders

• p. 17 Appendix C

  evidence of his involved in the death of Neil Heywood

• p. 17 Appendix C, Bo Xilai paragraph

  evidence of his involved in the death of Neil

Judge's note: Page 17 crop confirms the wording. The separate 'his involved' slip is handled under C024.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 17 Appendix C

  evidence of his involved in the death of Neil Heywood

• p. 17

  with evidence of his involved in the death

Judge's note: Page 17 crop confirms the wording.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 17 Appendix C

  in CPC 18th National Congress

• p. 18 Reference Edin 2003

  CPP Cadre Management from a Township Perspective

Only the authors can say what is right here.

Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: the original article title uses 'CCP'. Page 18 prints 'CPP'. 'CPC' in Appendix C ('CPC 18th National Congress') is an accepted alternative abbreviation and is not counted as an error; it is only a consistency point.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 17 References, Ada et al.

  Marc Lync

• p. 17

  Marc Lync, John Sides

Only the authors can say what is right here.

Judge's note: Rests on outside knowledge: the coauthor of 'Blogs and Bullets' is Marc Lynch (the first author's surname is likely Aday as well). Page image p17 (crop C027-a) shows 'Marc Lync' as quoted. Cosmetic misspelling in the reference list.

Second check: none (judge only)

• p. 18 Teiwes 1979

  Retification

• p. 18 Perry 2002 / Teiwes 1979

  Armork, NY

• p. 18 Przeworski et al. 2000

  Poltical

• p. 18 Esarey and Xiao 2011

  298–C319

Judge's note: All four strings are visible on the p18 page image in crops C028-a to C028-d, so they are not extraction artefacts. 'Retification', 'Poltical' and the stray 'C' in the page range are plain typos. Rests on outside knowledge for the 'Armork' item only: M. E. Sharpe is based in Armonk, NY.

Second check: none (judge only)