Kerry Ratigan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry Ratigan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Ratigan |
| SIGNATURE | RATIGAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7736-5284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
Treading Through Covid-19
Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China
Riding the tiger of performance legitimacy? Chinese villagers' satisfaction with state healthcare provision
Authoritarian regimes often rely on performance legitimacy, but cannot always fulfill policy promises, thereby undermining the regime. In 21st-century China, a reliance on performance legitimacy may seem unwise, as policy outcomes have been mixed. However, the Chinese government has managed to navigate gaping inequality and ineffective social policy. Why have policy failures not produced greater discontent? Using my original survey data to examin…
Are Peruvians Enticed by the “China Model”? Chinese Investment and Public Opinion in Peru
Attitudinal Feedback towards Sub-national Social Policy
Policy feedback theory posits that pre-existing policies shape citizens’ policy preferences and attitudes. This attitudinal feedback effect may, in turn, either reinforce or undermine current policies. This study seeks to examine whether attitudinal feedback explains why urban Chinese are motivated to contribute to social health insurance, a highly tangible issue for ordinary Chinese. Empirical data were collected in an original survey of urban i…
Attitudes toward welfare spending in urban China
What explains divergent levels of support for welfare spending in a non-Western authoritarian state? Can self-interest and ideology, two major theoretical frameworks from cross-national research, explain attitudinal patterns in China? Using data collected from an original survey in two provinces in 2017, we examined urban Chinese attitudes toward welfare spending. We focused on three social policy domains with distinctive characteristics: educati…
Disaggregating the Developing Welfare State
Too little, but not too late? Health reform in rural China and the limits of experimentalism
This article provides a preliminary evaluation of health care reforms in rural China, with particular focus on villagers’ perceptions of the quality of care and the rural health insurance programme. Based on semi-structured interviews and an original survey of villagers in three provinces, this study suggests that, although recent reforms may have somewhat reduced the out-of-pocket cost of catastrophic illness, rural health systems continue to su…
Disaggregating the Developing Welfare State
Attitudinal Feedback towards Sub-national Social Policy
Policy feedback theory posits that pre-existing policies shape citizens’ policy preferences and attitudes. This attitudinal feedback effect may, in turn, either reinforce or undermine current policies. This study seeks to examine whether attitudinal feedback explains why urban Chinese are motivated to contribute to social health insurance, a highly tangible issue for ordinary Chinese. Empirical data were collected in an original survey of urban i…
Attitudes toward welfare spending in urban China
What explains divergent levels of support for welfare spending in a non-Western authoritarian state? Can self-interest and ideology, two major theoretical frameworks from cross-national research, explain attitudinal patterns in China? Using data collected from an original survey in two provinces in 2017, we examined urban Chinese attitudes toward welfare spending. We focused on three social policy domains with distinctive characteristics: educati…
Treading Through Covid-19
Riding the tiger of performance legitimacy? Chinese villagers' satisfaction with state healthcare provision
Authoritarian regimes often rely on performance legitimacy, but cannot always fulfill policy promises, thereby undermining the regime. In 21st-century China, a reliance on performance legitimacy may seem unwise, as policy outcomes have been mixed. However, the Chinese government has managed to navigate gaping inequality and ineffective social policy. Why have policy failures not produced greater discontent? Using my original survey data to examin…
Are Peruvians Enticed by the “China Model”? Chinese Investment and Public Opinion in Peru
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
Too little, but not too late? Health reform in rural China and the limits of experimentalism
This article provides a preliminary evaluation of health care reforms in rural China, with particular focus on villagers’ perceptions of the quality of care and the rural health insurance programme. Based on semi-structured interviews and an original survey of villagers in three provinces, this study suggests that, although recent reforms may have somewhat reduced the out-of-pocket cost of catastrophic illness, rural health systems continue to su…
Disaggregating the Developing Welfare State
Attitudinal Feedback towards Sub-national Social Policy
Policy feedback theory posits that pre-existing policies shape citizens’ policy preferences and attitudes. This attitudinal feedback effect may, in turn, either reinforce or undermine current policies. This study seeks to examine whether attitudinal feedback explains why urban Chinese are motivated to contribute to social health insurance, a highly tangible issue for ordinary Chinese. Empirical data were collected in an original survey of urban i…
Attitudes toward welfare spending in urban China
What explains divergent levels of support for welfare spending in a non-Western authoritarian state? Can self-interest and ideology, two major theoretical frameworks from cross-national research, explain attitudinal patterns in China? Using data collected from an original survey in two provinces in 2017, we examined urban Chinese attitudes toward welfare spending. We focused on three social policy domains with distinctive characteristics: educati…
Are Peruvians Enticed by the “China Model”? Chinese Investment and Public Opinion in Peru
Riding the tiger of performance legitimacy? Chinese villagers' satisfaction with state healthcare provision
Authoritarian regimes often rely on performance legitimacy, but cannot always fulfill policy promises, thereby undermining the regime. In 21st-century China, a reliance on performance legitimacy may seem unwise, as policy outcomes have been mixed. However, the Chinese government has managed to navigate gaping inequality and ineffective social policy. Why have policy failures not produced greater discontent? Using my original survey data to examin…
Jiwei Qian, The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China
Treading Through Covid-19
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Law (3 works)