OxTalks is Changing
OxTalks will soon be transitioning to Oxford Events (full details are available on the Staff Gateway). A two-week publishing freeze is expected in early Hilary to allow all events to be migrated to the new platform. During this period, you will not be able to submit or edit events on OxTalks. The exact freeze dates will be confirmed as soon as possible.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
ASEAN Institute Seminar Series: Community-Minded Communists: A Field Experiment on Party Member Propensity for Community Activism in Among Rural Vietnamese Women
Are party members in single-party regimes more community-minded than non-party members? Understanding who joins authoritarian parties has important implications for authoritarian party durability and legitimacy. Parties able to recruit the community-minded may be viewed with greater trust. We argue that mass-based authoritarian parties successfully attract more community-minded citizens. We test our theory using a behavioral recruitment experiment for women in two rural districts in Vietnam and find that party members are ten percentage points more likely to join a training program when primed by collective incentives than non-party members. By contrast, party members are less likely to join when incentivized with selective incentives. A follow-up charity experiment shows that those in the community-incentive treatment group donate more to charity, further suggesting community-mindedness at work. The theory and findings could explain citizen trust in Vietnam’s single-party regime and speak to a broader alternative pathway to single-party regime legitimacy.
Date:
12 February 2025, 17:00
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Syndicate Room
Speaker:
Dr Quynh Nguyen (University of Bern)
Organising department:
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Organiser:
Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Organiser contact email address:
charlotte.guillain@area.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Jacob Ricks (Singapore Management University)
Part of:
ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2025
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Charlotte Guillain
