Weibo Posts and Survey Data on Democratic Flaws Propaganda in China

Replication Data for: Propaganda of Democratic Flaws and Its Impact on Regime Evaluations in Autocracies includes text data from Chinese state-affiliated media Weibo posts from 2013 to 2024 and results from two original survey experiments conducted in China. The data was authored by Rex Weiye Deng and is hosted by The Journal of Politics Dataverse. It was last updated on May 14, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing propaganda narratives based on text from Chinese state-affiliated media posts
• Measuring the impact of propaganda on regime evaluations based on survey experiment results
• Studying the relationship between democratic governance perceptions and authoritarian legitimacy based on the described data

Strengths

• Includes a longitudinal text corpus from 2013 to 2024, providing over a decade of data
• Combines text analysis with original survey experiments for methodological triangulation

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

The Journal of Politics Dataverse

Collection Method

Text analysis of Weibo posts and original survey experiments

Time Range

2013 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 22:08:56

Geography

China