All the King’s Men Are Lying: Detecting Statistical Misreporting within an Authoritarian Bureaucracy

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Elite Politics in Russia, China, and Vietnam

Brief Overview

The paper demonstrates the extent of and variations in statistical misreporting in Vietnam using remote sensing data, and argues that data falsification is a function of top-down incentive rather than local state capacity

Author

• Minh Duc Trinh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology