Who Can Serve As the Proxy for Public Managers in Public Administration Experiments? An examination of four subject groups

• In Event: Behavioral and Experimental Research in Public Administration

Brief Overview

We conducted experiments with four groups of subjects in China, including Chengguan officers, online respondents, MPA and bachelor students. The goal is to see if the latter three groups can serve as good proxies of street-level bureaucrats.

Authors

• Xiaoli Lu, Tsinghua University

• Weijie Wang, University of Missouri

• Hao Xu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China