Showing papers by "Thomas Heberer published in 2020"
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22 Apr 2020TL;DR: The authors argued that private entrepreneurs should be understood, and analytically conceptualized, as a "strategic group" that makes use of different formal and informal channels to safeguard and expand its interests, though so far it has not challenged the current regime.
Abstract: Utmost comparative Rich in primary sources This book provides a fresh perspective on the political agency of private entrepreneurs in contemporary China. Most Chinese scholarship describes this group as being politically acquiescent due to systematic co-optation by the party state. This book, however, argues that private entrepreneurs should be understood, and analytically conceptualized, as a 'strategic group' that makes use of different formal and informal channels to safeguard and expand its interests, though so far it has not challenged the current regime.
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