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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Göbel, M.A.

T: +43-1-4277-43851

christian.goebel@univie.ac.at

http://christiangoebel.net

Summer term 2026

150057 SE PhD Colloquium

150063 VO Politics and Law in China

Winter term 2025

150049 SE Dynamics of Dissent: Protests and Social Movements in Sinophone Societies

150120 UE Working with Academic Literature (Social Sciences)

150180 VO STEOP: Introduction to Chinese Political History

Steinhardt, H. C., & Göbel, C. (2026). Protecting society from itself: How the social credit system is justified on Chinese social media. Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251403951

Göbel, C. (Accepted/In press). Subversive Amplification in China: How Weibo Users Turned Propaganda into Mass Dissent After the 2022 Ürümqi Fire. China Quarterly: an international journal for the study of China.

Göbel, C., & Chen, X. L. (2025). Cultivating Compliance: E-Government and Behaviour Control in a Chinese Municipality. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 571-578. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026251389995

Fu, D., & Göbel, C. (2025). Exposing State Repression: Digital Discursive Contention by Chinese Protestors. Studies in Comparative International Development, 60(3), 655-689. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09428-0

Guan, Y., & Göbel, C. (2025). Faced with Information Overload: What Citizen Input Receives Leaders’ Attention in Authoritarian China. Problems of Post-Communism, 72(6), 571-582. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2025.2490926

Guan, Y., & Göbel, C. (2025). How local leaders respond to citizen input: Evidence from open administrative data in a Chinese county. China Information: a journal on contemporary China studies, 39(1), 110-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X241277996

Göbel, C. (2024). Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online Jason Gainous, Rongbin Han, Andrew W. MacDonald and Kevin M. Wagner. China Quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, 825-827. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024000663

Zeng, Y., Jiang, J., Li, J., & Göbel, C. (2023). The Rise of Grassroots Civil Society under One-Party Rule: The Case of China's Homeowner Associations. World Politics, 75(3), 608-646. https://doi.org/10.1353/wp.2023.a900714

Göbel, C. (2022). BTI 2022 | China Country Report. Web publication

Göbel, C. (2022). Corruption and Anti-corruption. In H.-H. M. Hsiao, & D. Fell (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/2667-1301_ETSO_COM_020457

Göbel, C., & Steinhardt, H. C. (2022). Protest Event Analysis Meets Autocracy: Comparing the Coverage of Chinese Protests on Social Media, Dissident Websites and in the News. Mobilization, 27(3), 277–295. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-27-3-277

Göbel, C., & Li, J. (2021). From Bulletin Boards to Big Data: The Origins and Evolution of Public Complaint Websites in China. China aktuell - Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 50(1), 39-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/1868102621992144

Göbel, C. (2021). The political logic of protest repression in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 30(128), 169-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2020.1790897

Göbel, C. (2021). Proteste in China. Web publication, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.

Göbel, C. (2020). BTI 2020 | China Country Report. Web publication

Göbel, C. (2020). Watchdog Institutions. In K. Templeman, Y. Chu, & L. Diamond (Eds.), Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years (pp. 183-202). Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Göbel, C. (2020). Social Resistance and Social Stability Maintenance in the Xi Jinping Era. In L. Zhao, & D. Qi (Eds.), Chinese Society in the Xi Era (pp. 1-17). World Scientific Publishing.

Göbel, C. (2019). (Anti-) Corruption and Partisan Bias in Taiwan's Newspapers. In C. Chen, & M. Weiss (Eds.), The Political Logics of Anticorruption Efforts in Asia (pp. 77-102). State University of New York Press (SUNY Press).

Göbel, C. (2019). Social unrest in China: a bird’s-eye view. In T. Wright (Ed.), Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China (pp. 27-45). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433787.00008

Göbel, C. (2018). BTI 2018 | China Country Report. Web publication