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讲座简介：
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Government information disclosure is an important part of public management, but the actual implementation is very diverse in China. We conducted a randomized field experiment among 303 prefecture-level cities and test whether social comparison can nudge bureaucrats into providing more environmental information. The city governments are randomly divided into three groups: the control group receiving the information request only; the parallel comparison group additionally being informed that seven other cities have posted relevant information online; the upward comparison group being told that the applicant has successfully requested similar information from the province government. The two treatment groups are not more likely to release information with one exception – when there is considerable ambiguity on whether the information is legal to disclose, the upward comparison increases the likelihood of disclosure. |
