Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR)

A dataset with more than 221,000 observations on individual MPs from 819 legislative terms in 130 authoritarian regimes from 1945 to 2024. The dataset covers biographical characteristics, career trajectories, and political positions of parliamentarians in non-democratic contexts.

Proposals in Chinese Provincial People's Political Consultative Conferences

Annual proposal submission data from all Provincial People's Political Consultative Conferences (PPCC) in China, 1998–2021. Includes number of proposals submitted, delegate counts, and average proposals per delegate across provinces and years.

Cite as: Wiebrecht, F. (2024). "Expertise and Responsiveness in People's Political Consultative Conferences." The China Quarterly. doi:10.1017/S0305741024001486