1.报告论文

  The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China(Martinez-Bravo, Monica, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao, American Economic Review,2022 )

2.主讲人

  杨云帆 中经管2021级硕士生

3.论文摘要

  We posit that autocrats introduce local elections when their bureaucratic capacity is low. Local elections exploit citizens’ informational advantage in keeping local officials accountable, but they also weaken vertical control. As bureaucratic capacity increases, the autocrat limits the role of elected bodies to regain vertical control. We argue that these insights can explain the introduction of village elections in rural China and the subsequent erosion of village autonomy years later. We construct a novel dataset to document political reforms, policy outcomes, and de facto power for almost four decades. We find that the introduction of elections improves popular policies and weakens unpopular ones. Increases in regional government resources lead to loss of village autonomy, but less so in remote villages. These patterns are consistent with an organizational view of local elections within autocracies.

4.时间

  2023年9月27日12：30-14：00

5.地点

  线下：学术会堂712

  线上会议链接：腾讯会议 906-758-521

5.点评老师

  戴田甜 姜神怡 明洋

6.活动对象

  创新发展学院本科生、研究生

7.活动规模

  线下限制30人

8.主办

  创新发展学院中国经济与管理研究院