Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR)
With currently more than 221,000 observations on individual MPs from 819 legislative terms in 130 authoritarian regimes from 1945 to 2024, PEAR is based on the largest individual-level demographic database on national legislators ever assembled and provides unprecedented information about elites in authoritarian regimes. You can find a working paper introducing the dataset here.
Proposals in Chinese Provincial People's Political Consultative Conferences
This dataset contains information about the number of proposals submitted annually in all Provincial People's Political Consultative Conferences (PPCC) in China from 1998 to 2021 taken from the PPCCs' work reports. It also includes details about how many delegates each PPCC had and the average number of proposals submitted by each delegate. You can download it here. Please cite the following article if you use the data: Wiebrecht F. Expertise and Responsiveness in People’s Political Consultative Conferences. The China Quarterly. Published online 2024:1-18. doi:10.1017/S0305741024001486