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Charles Chang

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1982
China's Socioeconomic Reforms and GovernanceMisinformation and Its ImpactsElectoral Systems and Political ParticipationData Management and AlgorithmsHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Publications

42

Citations

182

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

45

Publishing since 1982

Research summary
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Charles Chang studies how authoritarian governments, particularly China's, communicate with and monitor citizens, using large-scale data on state infrastructure, censorship, propaganda, and public opinion. His work combines political science methods with computational tools like GPS trajectory analysis and large language models to study governance, urban life satisfaction, and information control. This research is relevant to students interested in Chinese politics, authoritarian governance, and computational social science methods.

Authoritarian governance and state infrastructure in ChinaCensorship and information controlPolitical communication and propagandaUrban studies and citizen well-beingComputational methods (GPS trajectories, LLMs) applied to social science

Publication output peaked around 2019-2020 with a large volume of outputs (including datasets), then declined to a lower but fairly steady pace of a few publications per year through 2024, with new work appearing in 2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
17182019: 7 publications192020: 16 publications16202021: 3 publications21222023: 4 publications232024: 3 publications24252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Harvard Dataverse×17
  • Comparative Political Studies×2
  • Political Communication×2
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×2
  • Political Analysis×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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