Emotions, Self-Efficacy, and Blame Attribution in Authoritarian Regimes: A Study of Government Failures in China

• In Event: Authoritarianism and Democratic Erosion

Brief Overview

We study how how do people assign blame to different levels of governments in the face of policy failure in China. We focus on how different types of emotions such as anger and anxiety could affect blame attribution.

Authors

• Menglin Liu, University of California-Davis

• Yuyang Pu, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus