Cadres and local policy experimentation

Reza Hasmath and Jessica C. Teets

Chapter 6 in Handbook on Local Governance in China, 2023, pp 98-111 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter looks at the personality characteristics of Chinese policymakers and its relationship with policy experimentation. It demonstrates that Chinese policymakers fundamentally vary in terms of base-level preferences – displaying distinct personalities even under conditions of strong authoritarian institutions. Namely, although authoritarian bureaucrats face strong structural top-down institutional pressures, their individual risk preferences are heterogeneous. These personality characteristics provide insight into why certain Chinese policymakers have a penchant to engage in policy experimentation, and others do not, regardless of acting in the same policymaking ecology.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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