Prospect theory and China’s crisis behaviour under Hu JinTao

• 主要作者: He, Kai
• 其他作者: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• 格式: Working Paper
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2016
• 主題: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82409; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40000
• 機構: 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...