Exploring political personalities: The micro‐foundation of local policy innovation in China
通过对中国地方政策制定者的调查数据做主成分分析，发现不同人格特质显著影响其创新意愿，且这种影响会随风险等制度环境变化而调整，传统风险偏好型政策企业家人格并不能很好解释创新。
Abstract This article argues that policymakers' individual attributes influence their willingness to engage in policy innovation, and that this influence is responsive to, but not determined by, changes in the institutional structure. We derive these findings by employing principal component analysis of original data from surveys of local policymakers in China, to inductively locate different personalities. We find statistically significant personalities that influence a willingness to innovate, and that this influence is responsive to changes such as heightened risk. In addition to parsing the influence of extrinsic and intrinsic motivations on policy innovation, we further find that the traditional risk‐acceptant policy‐entrepreneur personality does not explain innovation well.