Essays on the behavioral political economy of authoritarian regimes : historical and contemporary evidence from China
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation aims to understand the forces of stability in authoritarian regimes. I investigate three distinctive forces — historical experiences, indoctrination, and media censorship — and their roles in shaping citizens' political beliefs, attitudes, preferences, and behaviors. I focus on the case of Mainland China, one of the largest and longest standing authoritarian regimes in recent history. I show that the Chinese regime over the past seventy years represents a history of information control, from an age of tight control, to an era of gradual reform and open-up, and to the Internet age. I find that the Chinese regime is often effective when it uses reinterpretation of history, school indoctrination, and media censorship to affect its citizens so that the regime remains stable.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Yang, Yufan |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Degree supervisor | Gentzkow, Matthew |
| Thesis advisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Thesis advisor | Gentzkow, Matthew |
| Thesis advisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Thesis advisor | Niederle, Muriel |
| Degree committee member | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Degree committee member | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Degree committee member | Niederle, Muriel |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | David Yufan Yang. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Yufan Yang
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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