Gauging preference stability and ideological constraint under authoritarian rule

J Pan, Y Xu - 21st Century China Center Research Paper, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Why do authoritarian regimes like China devote resources to gathering information about
the policy preferences of the public? We argue that if the public exhibits stable, multi …

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J Pan, Y Xu - 2020 - kingcenter.stanford.edu
Why do authoritarian regimes like China devote resources to gathering information about
the policy preferences of the public? We argue that if the public exhibits stable, multi …