When Bureaucratic Control Fails: Information Monitoring and Political Decision-Making Bias within China’s Imperial Bureaucracy

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of East Asia

Brief Overview

Our study investigates the unintended consequences of intensified bureaucratic control on political decision-making, drawing on evidence from the 1722 information monitoring reform in the Qing China bureaucratic system.

Authors

• Xiaoming Zhang, Zhejiang University, China

• Xianqi Cao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology