Written Directives as Signals: The Informational Impacts of Leaders’ Pishi in the Chinese Bureaucracy

• In Event: Bureaucratic Institution and Behavior in China

Brief Overview

This paper examines how political leaders’ writing directives (Pishi) to their subordinates affect the future information they can obtain from these subordinates in the Chinese bureaucracy.

Authors

• Zhenda Xie, Fudan University

• Linchuan Zhang, Emory University