Planned Politics and Authoritarian Party Survival: Chinese Communist Party Recruitment in Transition, 2011-2015

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Topics on Elite Politics and Signaling in China

Brief Overview

Using large-scale users’ behavioral data collected from the Internet, we develop a new method to estimate the number of applicants and admissions for the Chinese Communist Party membership in China’s prefectural cities.

Author

• Zesen Yang, Tsinghua University