时间：3月11日周三下午2:00—4:00 地点：国家发展研究院万众楼一楼小教室 主讲人： Heng (Henry) Chen (HKU)   Aspiring for Change: A Theory of Middle Class Activism   Abstract:   When there is uncertainty about the quality of a specific regime and governance in general, poor people perceive the current regime as bad, and rationally infer that all governments are bad. They believe that mass movements are futile. The middle class are more sanguine about the prospect of good government, and they believe collective political action is effective because they expect many fellow citizens to share the same view. This coordination game admits interval equilibria but not monotone equilibrium. Only middle class people attack the regime and their action is successful only when the regime quality is intermediate.