Why Do Politicians Make Vague Decisions? Policy articulation and communication in Chinese party-state bureaucracy

• In Event: Elite Politics in China

Brief Overview

This study theorizes the value of vagueness in political communication in China and empirically tests it using Zhongfa and Guofa documents (2003-2017). It opens a new research direction for understanding policy-making in Chinese authoritarian state.

Author

• Jiying Jiang, University of California, San Diego