Board #40 - Beyond Rubber Stamps: Signaling, Attention Allocation, and the Accelerating Effect of Legislators' Suggestions

• In Event: 75-303 - Poster Session: How Do Authoritarian Governments Use Economic and Social Policies to Retain Power?

Brief Overview

Using survival analysis, we find legislative suggestions significantly accelerate airport construction. Text mining proves this agenda-setting power is independent of local plans, acting as a credible signal rather than a rubber stamp endorsement.

Author

• Ruoxi Yan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University