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100			_aLiu, Dongshu _940775
245			_a Policy influence of delegates in authoritarian legislatures: Evidence from China
260			_aPolitical Research Quarterly
300			_a76(2), Jun, 2023: p.481-495
520			_aCan delegates in authoritarian legislatures influence policy outcomes? The existing literature provides extensive knowledge on how delegates behave but relatively little evidence on how government processes delegate policy participation and whether such participation changes policy. Based on a unique dataset of government responses to delegates’ policy proposals in China, this paper proposes a new distributive theory of authoritarian legislature and explains the conditions under which delegates can influence policy. The findings show that proposals requesting particularistic benefits are more likely to receive acceptance when they are made by delegates representing regime allies, whereas proposals requesting universalistic benefits are more likely to attain acceptance if they come from delegates representing the public. This finding can shed new light on authoritarian legislatures and their influence on policy. It also reveals a new theory of how autocrats make tradeoffs in allocating resources to accommodate competing policy demands and provide public goods. – Reproduced
650			_aAuthoritarian legislature, China, Distributions, particularistic and universalistic policies. _940776
773			_aPolitical Research Quarterly
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