Replication Package for: Ideological Institutionalization in Authoritarian China: A Three-Layer Corpus-Based Analysis of the Expansion of Schools of Marxism

This repository contains the full replication materials for the study Ideological Institutionalization in Authoritarian China: A Three-Layer Corpus-Based Analysis of the Expansion of Schools of Marxism, which examines how ideological authority is institutionalized through bureaucratic and organizational processes in China’s higher education system. The project reconstructs ideological governance as a multi-layered institutional mechanism linking leadership discourse, ministerial regulation, and university-level implementation. Empirically, it combines large-scale text-as-data analysis with organizational event-study methods to trace how ideological signals articulated at the central level are translated into regulatory standards and embedded in university governance structures, particularly through the expansion of Schools of Marxism. Contents The repository includes: Five curated corpora covering leadership speeches, regulatory standards, ministerial and inter-ministerial policy documents, grassroots university administrative texts, and institutional establishment timelines. Preprocessing and analysis scripts for text cleaning, tokenization, semantic similarity analysis, topic modeling, co-occurrence network construction, and event-study estimation. Baseline outputs used in the main analyses reported in the article. Robustness-check outputs corresponding exclusively to sensitivity analyses reported in Appendix B. Detailed documentation explaining corpus construction, preprocessing decisions, and analytical workflows. Structure and Reproducibility All scripts are modular and named to correspond directly to sections in Appendix A (Data and Methods) and Appendix B (Robustness Checks) of the article.Baseline analyses and robustness analyses are intentionally stored in separate output directories to prevent result contamination. The full analytical workflow can be reproduced by running the main pipeline script (run_all.py) after setting up the required Python environment specified in Appendix A. Corpus 3 contains structured event data (CSV format) and is used exclusively for event-study analysis; all other corpora consist of cleaned textual materials. Scope and Limitations The organizational analysis focuses on 147 “Double First-Class” universities, which represent a core segment of China’s higher education system. While the institutional patterns identified here are robust within this sample, future research may extend the framework to other institutional tiers or national contexts本仓库包含研究《威权中国的意识形态制度化：基于三层语料库的马克思主义学院建设扩张分析》的完整复现材料，该研究探讨了中国高等教育体系中意识形态权威如何通过科层制与组织流程实现制度化。 该项目将意识形态治理重构为一种多层级制度机制，串联起顶层领导话语、部委监管与高校层面的落地执行。在实证层面，研究结合大规模文本数据分析与组织事件研究法，追踪中央层面传递的意识形态信号如何转化为监管标准，并嵌入高校治理结构中，尤其是通过马克思主义学院的建设扩张实现这一过程。 内容 本仓库包含以下内容： - 五份经过精选的语料库：涵盖领导讲话、监管标准、部委及跨部委政策文件、基层高校行政文本，以及机构设立时间线。 - 预处理与分析脚本：用于文本清洗、Token化、语义相似度分析、主题建模、共现网络构建以及事件研究估计。 - 本研究主分析中使用的基准输出结果。 - 仅对应附录B中敏感性分析的稳健性检验输出结果。 - 详细文档：涵盖语料库构建、预处理决策以及分析工作流程。 结构与可复现性 所有脚本均采用模块化设计，命名直接对应论文附录A（数据与方法）与附录B（稳健性检验）中的章节。基准分析与稳健性分析被刻意分开存储在不同的输出目录中，以避免结果污染。 在配置好附录A中指定的Python运行环境后，通过运行主流程脚本run_all.py即可复现完整的分析工作流。语料库3包含结构化事件数据（CSV格式），仅用于事件研究分析；其余所有语料库均为经过清洗的文本材料。 范围与局限 本组织分析聚焦于147所“双一流（Double First-Class）”高校，这一群体代表了中国高等教育体系的核心板块。尽管本研究识别出的制度模式在该样本中具有稳健性，未来研究可将该分析框架拓展至其他层级的高校或不同国家的语境中。