Replication Data for: China’s Ideological Spectrum Revisited

The study of ideological cleavages in authoritarian settings contributes to our understanding of the sources of regime legitimacy. In this paper, we replicate Pan and Xu (2018)’s paper on China’s ideological spectrum. By making small changes in survey item deletion and sample selection using confirmatory factor analysis, we find an alternative three-dimensional configuration of preferences as China’s ideological spectrum, which indicates that nationalism is a core element of regime support in China. Using a hierarchical graded response model, we suggest that modernization has differential effects on political, economic, and social preferences in China, with stronger effects on economic and social preferences than political preferences.