Prospect theory and China’s crisis behaviour under Hu JinTao

• المؤلف الرئيسي: He, Kai
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Working Paper
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2016
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82409; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40000
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Borrowing insights from prospect theory, this paper introduces a ―political survival-prospect‖ model to explain the dynamics of China‘s foreign policy behaviour during crises. I argue that when Chinese leaders are framed in a domain of losses with respect to political survival, a risk-acceptant b...