Carrots or Sticks? Risk Attitudes and Obedience in an Authoritarian Ruling Party

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Elite Politics in Russia, China, and Vietnam

Brief Overview

This paper argues that risk orientations explain cadres’ varying levels of obedience in authoritarian ruling parties and tests the argument with an endorsement experiment and a survey experiment among medium-level and senior cadres in China.

Author

• Fengming Lu, Princeton University