The political position generator - A new instrument for measuring political ties in China

  • This paper proposes a novel instrument – the political position generator - for measuring individuals’ political ties, or personal, affective connections to state officials and other political actors. It adopts and adapts the more general position generator framework in social capital research to capture three key dimensions of political ties – upper reachability, network diversity, and tie strength. The measure is validated with data from a representative survey of the Chinese population and three scales representing the three political ties dimensions are created. In correlational and multivariate regression analyses, we find initial evidence of the instrument’s criterion-related (discriminant and concurrent) validity.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Daniela StockmannORCiD, Keri Hartman, Ting Luo
Parent Title (English):Social Networks
ISSN:0378-8733
Publication year:2020
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:70
Last Page:79
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.05.004
Release Date:2021/06/07
Volume:63
Hertie School Research:Centre for Digital Governance
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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