Board #37 - Beyond the Rubber Stamp: Signaling, Attention Allocation, and the Accelerating Effect of Legislators’ Proposals

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

Brief Overview

Using survival analysis, we show NPC proposals accelerate airport construction via spatial coordination, substitute informal patronage networks, and exhibit uniform efficacy across delegates, serving as institutionalized upward lobbying.

Author

• Ruoxi Yan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University