New research challenges assumptions about responsiveness in single-party regimes. Using a field experiment, we examined legislators' reactions to citizen and firm contact within the Vietnamese National Assembly.
The Question: Do party rules prevent responsive governance?
We designed and implemented an intervention across multiple assembly sessions targeting diverse members to directly test this hypothesis. Our findings reveal that responsiveness persists despite party dominance.
| Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly was authored by Jason Douglas Todd, Edmund J. Malesky, Anh Tran and Quoc Anh Le. It was published by Chicago in JOP in 2021. |
