dc.contributor.author | Or, H | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-15T15:19:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-05-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article considers how autocrats decide to expand or narrow the issue diversity of their policy agenda during a period of political liberalization. Prior studies have two competing perspectives. First, political liberalization increases the social and political freedom that enhances information exchange, and thus expands issue diversity. Second, political liberalization decreases government’s control of the legislature and thus narrows the issue diversity. This article offers a novel theoretical perspective by combining these two countervailing theories. It predicts a diminishing marginal benefit of information exchange and an increasing marginal bargaining cost. As such, this article argues that issue diversity follows a negative quadratic (inverted-U) relationship as the regimes liberalize. The analysis of a new and unique dataset of Hong Kong’s legislative agenda (1975 to 2016) offers support for this theory. This study contributes to our knowledge of policymaking in authoritarian regimes and the theory of information processing. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 03-05-2019 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/padm.12602 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/J500161/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/37120 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/padm.12602 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2019 The Authors Public Administration Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | policy agendas | en_GB |
dc.subject | issue diversity | en_GB |
dc.subject | political liberalization | en_GB |
dc.subject | authoritarian regimes | en_GB |
dc.subject | Hong Kong politics | en_GB |
dc.title | How Policy Agendas Change When Autocracies Liberalize: The Case of Hong Kong, 1975‐2016 | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-15T15:19:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1467-9299 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Public Administration | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-04-22 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-04-22 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-05-15T14:35:14Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-05-15T15:19:16Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |