Biographical data of Vietnam’s political elites

I construct an original biographical dataset of more than 1,700 Vietnamese elites, including all Politburo, Central Committee and Alternate Central Committee members from the first to the most recent (12th) Party Congress;
all provincial party secretaries elected between the 10th and the 12th Party Congress (from 2006 to 2020), as well as the members of the National Assembly from 1946 to 2018.

Disciplinary investigations in the Vietnamese Communist Party

I collect more than 2,400 news releases published since 2016 by the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Central Committee for Discipline Inspection, the highest organ responsible for the inspection and supervision of party cadres in the regimes. The data allow researchers to track the CCDI’s various activities over time, and to study the frequency, timing, and target of investigations, in particular anti-corruption investigations in an authoritarian setting.

Toward a universe of Vietnamese online newspapers

I develop webscrapers to track the front pages of 80 of Vietnam’s official online newspapers – in effect, more 3 quarters of the entire universe of authorized newspapers in the country. The scrapers can track daily changes in the appearance of the front pages, as well as subtle changes in content of individual articles due to censorship.

The World Economics and Politics (WEP) Dataverse

At Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, I am responsible for the front end of the WEP, a queryable data resource for comparative and international political economy. The dataverse amasses country-year and data-year data from nearly 100 datasets, and includes both panel and dyadic data for more than 200 countries, with observations spanning from 1800 until 2018. The WEP is a joint product of Niehaus Center and the Security and Political Economy (SPEC) Lab at the University of Southern California.