Political Mobility and Reputation Management in China: An Empirical Study Based on 55.7 Million Text Data

• In Event: Bureaucracy in Authoritarian Systems

Brief Overview

Based on the analysis of 55.7 million documents using supervised machine learning method, the paper shows how official characteristics and political mobility affect local government’s reputation management in China.

Authors

• Ukui Wang, Tsinghua University

• Qingguo Meng, Tsinghua University

• Ruiqi Shi, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

• Tom Christensen, University of Oslo

• Sicheng Chen, Tsinghua University