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Decentralisation, Corruption and Criminalisation: China in Comparative Perspective
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In this paper, the authors argue that these positive and dynamic aspects of decentralisation coexist with growing inequalities, corruption, criminalisation and insecurity at the local levels, all tendencies which have an important impact on everyday life and the perceptions of rural as well as urban Chinese.Abstract:
China’s economic dynamism. Chinese flexibility at the territorial level is certainly influenced by the inheritance of a very incomplete urbanisation and statesocialist economy, and by the present day local state corporatism, which combines public intervention with market-oriented growth.’ However, these positive and dynamic aspects of decentralisation coexist with growing inequalities, corruption, criminalisation and insecurity at the local levels, all tendencies which have an important impact on everyday life and the perceptions of rural as well as urban Chinese.read more
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Development lessons from China: a political-economic perspective on how neopatrimonial states may achieve high economic growth
TL;DR: The authors examines the Chinese bureaucracy as a new generation of leaders takes the helm, uncovering the sources of its neopatrimonial characteristics during the transition from a socialist regime to a market-based economy, and attributing its economic success to the specific nature of its rent extractions.
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In Search of a Rationalized Chinese Administrative State
Yanan Li,Jingwei Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the basic problems that negatively affect China's effort to enhance substantive rationality in its present course of development are highlighted, focusing on the logic of administration and state cadres' dominant logic that have a direct bearing on the search for a substantively rational administrative state.