Zhusong Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhusong Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhusong |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7203-5294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aligning Agendas in Public-Activity Reports
Portraying Competence, Benevolence, or Party Loyalty? Political Propaganda and the Image-Building of Political Elites in China
How do political elites in authoritarian regimes shape their public image? Drawing on a unique dataset covering official news releases of the daily public activities of all provincial party secretaries in China from 2016 to 2022, this study finds that authoritarian elites manipulate the propaganda apparatus to project various public images. Text analysis shows that provincial leaders employ a variety of themes and narratives to highlight their ac…
Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development
Compared to democracies, our understanding of policy attention in authoritarian governments remains limited. Using data from 612 Chinese municipal party secretaries’ official activities, we investigate the structural factors within the authoritarian bureaucratic system influencing new officials’ attention for economic issues. The findings reveal that younger officials and those transferred from other regions exhibit a clear preference for economi…
Political Attention in a Single-Leading-Party State
This article explores the political attention of an authoritarian regime from a comparative perspective. Data from daily meetings of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council from 2003 to 2019 reveal the punctuated characteristics of China’s macropolitical agenda, which is less intensely punctuated than those in democracies. Further, in the absence of party competition and power balance, the authoritarian party uses the “leading group mec…
Political Attention in a Single-Leading-Party State
This article explores the political attention of an authoritarian regime from a comparative perspective. Data from daily meetings of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council from 2003 to 2019 reveal the punctuated characteristics of China’s macropolitical agenda, which is less intensely punctuated than those in democracies. Further, in the absence of party competition and power balance, the authoritarian party uses the “leading group mec…
Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development
Compared to democracies, our understanding of policy attention in authoritarian governments remains limited. Using data from 612 Chinese municipal party secretaries’ official activities, we investigate the structural factors within the authoritarian bureaucratic system influencing new officials’ attention for economic issues. The findings reveal that younger officials and those transferred from other regions exhibit a clear preference for economi…
Political Attention in a Single-Leading-Party State
This article explores the political attention of an authoritarian regime from a comparative perspective. Data from daily meetings of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council from 2003 to 2019 reveal the punctuated characteristics of China’s macropolitical agenda, which is less intensely punctuated than those in democracies. Further, in the absence of party competition and power balance, the authoritarian party uses the “leading group mec…
Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development
Compared to democracies, our understanding of policy attention in authoritarian governments remains limited. Using data from 612 Chinese municipal party secretaries’ official activities, we investigate the structural factors within the authoritarian bureaucratic system influencing new officials’ attention for economic issues. The findings reveal that younger officials and those transferred from other regions exhibit a clear preference for economi…
Portraying Competence, Benevolence, or Party Loyalty? Political Propaganda and the Image-Building of Political Elites in China
How do political elites in authoritarian regimes shape their public image? Drawing on a unique dataset covering official news releases of the daily public activities of all provincial party secretaries in China from 2016 to 2022, this study finds that authoritarian elites manipulate the propaganda apparatus to project various public images. Text analysis shows that provincial leaders employ a variety of themes and narratives to highlight their ac…
Aligning Agendas in Public-Activity Reports
China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works) · China (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works)