Media Salience and the Termination of Central Agencies in China

• In Event: Understanding Bureaucratic Agencies: Politicization, Reputation, and Stability

Brief Overview

Based on the analysis of 1,163,572 People’s Daily articles, using supervised machine learning method and event history study, the paper shows how media salience influence the termination of Chinese central agencies from 1949 to 2020.

Authors

• Sicheng Chen, Tsinghua University

• Tom Christensen, University of Oslo

• Liang Ma, Renmin University of China