Research & publications

Research & publications

From journal articles to policy briefs, Munk School faculty and researchers are producing leading edge research across multiple disciplines. Use the filters below to select articles by format, topic and affiliation and access the latest research and publications.

Research

Format

Topic / Geography

Affiliation

Citizen Lab

Not OK on VK: An Analysis of In-Platform Censorship on Russia’s VKontakte

By Jeffrey Knockel, Jakub Dalek, Levi Meletti & Ksenia Ermoshina

Ontario 360

Ontario Infrastructure: How to Make a Big Spend Go Further

By Brian Dijkema

Political Economy of Innovation

Citizen Lab

Beautiful Bauhinia: “HKLeaks” – The Use of Covert and Overt Online Harassment Tactics to Repress 2019 Hong Kong Protests

By Alberto Fittarelli & Lokman Tsui

Belt & Road

From a “project of the century” to “small is beautiful”: The changing face of the BRI in Africa

By Abdou Rahim Lema

Changing World Order

Citizen Lab

Should We Chat? Privacy in the WeChat Ecosystem

By Mona Wang, Pellaeon Lin & Jeffrey Knockel

Citizen Lab

Confirmation & Research Note 1: Pegasus infections in Armenian Civil Society

By John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Nicola Lawford & Ron Deibert

Belt & Road

The China dream in Fiji: Migrant perspectives of the Belt and Road Initiative

By Henryk Szadziewski

Changing World Order

C.D Howe Institute

Make Mine a Double: Ontario’s Housing Supply Targets

By Brian Lewis

Political Economy of Innovation

Journal of Democracy

The CCP after the Zero-Covid Fail

By Lynette Ong

Changing World Order

Citizen Lab

Missing Links: A comparison of search censorship in China

By Jeffrey Knockel, Ken Kato, and Emile Dirks

University of Chicago Press

The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization

Francis Cody

Citizen Lab

Triple Threat: NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Returns in 2022 with a Trio of iOS 15 and iOS 16 Zero-Click Exploit Chains

By Bill Marczak, John Scott-Railton, Bahr Abdul Razzak & Ron Deibert

Citizen Lab

Sweet QuaDreams: A First Look at Spyware Vendor QuaDream’s Exploits, Victims, and Customers

By Bill Marczak, John Scott-Railton, Astrid Perry, Noura Al-Jizawi, Siena Anstis, Zoe Panday, Emma Lyon, Bahr Abdul Razzak & Ron Deibert

Ontario 360

The 2023 Ontario Budget: Consistent Industrial Strategies and Traditional Spending Needs Amid Improved Fiscal Circumstances

By Brian Lewis

Ontario 360

ON360 – The 2023 Ontario Budget: Strategic, Economic and Fiscal Policy Considerations

By Brian Lewis

Changing World Order

Belt & Road

The BRI at 10: What have We Learned from Southeast Asia?

By Guanie Lim and Hong Liu

Changing World Order

Belt & Road

The Belt and Road Initiative and China’s New International Order

By Theodor Tudoroiu

Changing World Order

The Journal of Politics

Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries

By Peter Loewen

Future of Democratic Societies

Citizen Lab

You Move, They Follow: Uncovering Iran’s Mobile Legal Intercept System

By Gary Miller, Noura Al-Jizawi, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marcus Michaelsen, Zoe Panday, Genny Plumptre, Adam Senft & Ron Deibert

Sociology of Education

Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017

By Rie Kijima, Patricia Bromley, Jared Furuta, Heitor Santos, Lisa Overbey & Minju Choi

Future of Democratic Societies

Oxford University Press

Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of "Korea's Hiroshima"

Joshua D. Pilzer

Japanese Journal of Political Science

Japan: the harbinger state

By Phillip Lipscy

Changing World Order

Ethics & International Affairs

Solidarity in Place? Hope and Despair in Postpandemic Membership

By Ayelet Shachar

Changing World Order

Citizen Lab

Mass Iris Scan Collection in Qinghai, 2019–2022

By Emile Dirks