Introduction
Organizations, officials, positions, appointments, relationships, and political transitions in China's CCP.
Database Information
- Version & Update Information
Current metadata status: Development. Public Explore is not yet enabled. The first release notes will add a version identifier, substantive update date, change summary, expected update cadence, and archive policy.
- Codebook
- Codebook not available yet
- Citation
For provisional reference, cite the Organization of Power Lab as creator of the China Politics Database and include the version, access date, and permanent release URL. A final copy-ready citation will be published with the first versioned release.
Data Coverage
The development database covers Chinese Communist Party and state organizations, officials, positions, appointments, parent-child relationships, and political transitions. Exact temporal and organizational coverage, renames, aliases, and gaps remain to be verified.
Schema
The database is maintained in the PostgreSQL schema `cnpolitics`. Its public schema description will identify approved tables, keys, relationships, and derived views after model-to-database verification. A public diagram or SQL artifact will be added when it is ready for release.
Data Sources & Methods
Records are compiled from project-curated official, institutional, media, and biographical sources. Release documentation will state multilingual name and organization matching, hierarchy and rename rules, appointment intervals, evidence, and validation.
Current Structure
Configured Explore tools currently include Organization Tree. No enabled download resource is currently registered. These entries describe the development application surface; release readiness, table coverage, and public fields remain subject to the Database's vertical-slice review.
Planned Expansion
Planned work expands the organization tree, career and transition coverage, and comparative elite-management measures linking the CCP with other party-state systems.
Lab Connections
- Approaches
- Contributors
- Relevant Literature
- See literature for this database in Zotero.