{"id":1352,"date":"2025-10-03T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:27:12","slug":"erin-baggott-carter-and-brett-carter-riker-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/10\/erin-baggott-carter-and-brett-carter-riker-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><strong>Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1353 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/10\/baggott-carter-carter_faculty-recognition-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Composite of headshots with Erin Baggott Carter on left and Brett Carter on right\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/10\/baggott-carter-carter_faculty-recognition-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2025\/10\/baggott-carter-carter_faculty-recognition.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/erin-baggott\/\"><strong>Erin Baggott Carter<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/brett-carter\/\"><strong>Brett Carter<\/strong><\/a>, associate professors of political science and international relations, were awarded the William H. Riker Book Award by the American Political Science Association for their book <em>Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief<\/em>. The prize recognizes the best book published on political economy over the past three years. The Carters\u2019 work analyzes how authoritarian regimes use propaganda to shape beliefs, advancing scholarly understanding of political institutions and information control.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/erin-baggott\/\"><strong>Erin Baggott Carter<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/brett-carter\/\"><strong>Brett Carter<\/strong><\/a>, associate professors of political science and international relations, were awarded the William H. Riker Book Award by the American Political Science Association for their book Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief. The prize recognizes the best book published on political economy over the past three years. The Carters\u2019 work analyzes how authoritarian regimes use propaganda to shape beliefs, advancing scholarly understanding of political institutions and information control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-social-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/10\/erin-baggott-carter-and-brett-carter-riker-book-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter - USC Dornsife News Briefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Erin Baggott Carter and Brett Carter, associate professors of political science and international relations, were awarded the William H. 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