Who Wins Endorsement from Peers? A Survey Experiment on Elite Selection in China

• In Event: Who Leads? Studies in Administrative Leadership and Personnel

Brief Overview

Based on a conjoint experiment, we simulate the scenarios of intra-party interviews that help decide promotion among medium-level officials in Chinese local governments. Officials support candidates who have demonstrated competence over loyalists.

Authors

• Fengming Lu, Princeton University

• Xiao Ma, Peking University