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When Stories Shape Decisions: Policy Narrative and Risk Preferences Among China’s Village Cadres
Methodology
Survey, Behavioural Experiment, Randomised Controlled Trial, Participatory Design
Project type
PhD Research, Policy Studies, Political Psychology
Period
Jan 2022 - present
Topics
Policy Implementations, Narrative Policy Framework, Village Cadres, Risk Preferences
Location
23 provinces in China
Part of my PhD research, this study bridges behavioural economics and policy theory to examine how poverty alleviation narratives shape the risk preferences of frontline officials in rural China. Using a mixed-method design grounded in the Narrative Policy Framework, it combines qualitative coding of media narratives with a national video-based experiment involving 210 village cadres. Findings reveal that narrative framings can subtly shift decision-making attitudes, offering fresh insight into how policy stories influence implementer behaviour in collectivist contexts.
The research is completed and has been presented at two international conferences (The 7th International Conference on Public Policy at Chiangmai, Thailand; European Consortium for Political Research 2025 at Thessaloniki, Greece). The manuscript will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal soon.