This special issue demonstrates that authoritarian legislatures often matter for their
countries' policy processes in myriad ways, despite the fact that their influence is constrained …

In response to calls to apply the multiple streams framework to nondemocracies, this article
adapts the framework to an authoritarian context and applies it to a case study of live poultry …

Abstract The Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) builds on the concepts of timing and
ambiguity and their effects on the policy process. Since its introduction to agenda-setting in …

Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show
how local governments play a complex role. China's high-speed railway network is one of …

Extant literature has not fully accounted for the changes underway in China's perspectives
on the ethical risks of artificial intelligence (AI). This article develops a community-of-practice …

Does the creation of nominally democratic institutions help dictators stay in power by
diminishing the risk of coups? We posit that the effectiveness of political institutions in …

While research on women's substantive representation in legislatures has proliferated, our
knowledge of gender lobbying mechanisms in authoritarian regimes remains limited …

Prior literature highlights democracies' struggle to cope with today's rapid socio‐economic
changes, contrasting with more adept responses in authoritarian systems. This study makes …

Leading small groups (领导小组, LSGs) are widely presumed to be the most important
mechanisms for coordinating policy among the various government and Party bureaucracies …

Abstract The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) is a powerful analytical perspective to
advance our understanding of policy change by stressing the role of programmatic groups …