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Making Policy with Data An Introductory Course on Policy Evaluation
Policy Briefing
Instructor: Prof Yiqing XuApril 27
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Sources of Authoritarian Responsiveness (Chen-Pan-Xu 2017)
● Research Question: What explains government responsiveness in an authoritarian country?
● Sample: China’s online government platforms (>2000 counties)
● Outcome: Response to citizen request
● Treatments:● Threat of collective action● Evoking the oversight of upper level leaders● Claims of loyal, Communist Party membership
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3An Online Field Experiment in China
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4An Online Field Experiment in China
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5An Online Field Experiment in China
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6Treatment Conditions: Collective Action
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7Treatment Conditions: Tattling
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8Treatment Condition: Loyal Party Member
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9Causal Effect on Responsiveness
Baseline Responsiveness: 32%
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10Causal Effects on Reply Content
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Buzzword: Turing Test
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Turing Test
• Originated from a 1950 paper by Alan Turing
• The test: Whether a human evaluator will be reliably differentiate a machine from a human based on lengthy natural language conversions
• An important concept in the philosophy of AI
• So far not a computer has yet passed a lengthy Turing Test
• Some people expect it to happen by 2030
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Turing test
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R time!