Integrating Wealth and Power in China: The Communist Party's Embrace of the Private Sector

Dickson, Bruce J.

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“…She has further argued that a reliance on political networks and bureaucratic structures is a unique characteristic of the municipal economy and highlights the importance of the patron-client network to economic development (Oi 1999). Similar arguments have also been formulated from perspectives of the interactions between political and economic elites (Shirk 1993;Dickson 2008) and the bond between governments and enterprises (Lu and Pan 2009); the general consensus is that the intimate association between political and economic elites (the marriage of power and wealth) has propelled the macro economic growth in China.…”

Section: Patron-client Network and Market Developmentmentioning

confidence: 85%

The strength of interconnectedness between structure and culture: market development in the presence of over-embedded social structure in the lime market of Hui Town

2016

J. Chin. Sociol.

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This article brings together two different approaches in the new economic sociology-structural embeddedness and cultural embeddedness-to understand the transformation and development of a market. Markets are considered over-embedded in social structure and assessed to be in decline when their economic transactions are dependent on secondary clientelism, in which the reseller serves as patron and the supplier as client. Based on ethnographic data from the lime market in Hui Town, this study examines how this kind of market develops in the presence of transactions embedded in secondary clientelism. From the perspective of the interconnected mode between structure and culture, these findings demonstrate that the coupling induction from secondary clientelist networks and new business ideology is the underlying mechanism allowing market development. This means that the process of marketization might not necessarily be associated with market transactions' depersonalization or social disembedding, and instead development may be hindered if the market is devoid of social bonds and social virtue.

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Section: Patron-client Network and Market Developmentmentioning

confidence: 85%

The strength of interconnectedness between structure and culture: market development in the presence of over-embedded social structure in the lime market of Hui Town

2016

J. Chin. Sociol.

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“…This desire has been put into practice at the cost of traditionally 'individual rights, the rights of kin groups and religious communities, and local community self-government and autonomy' (Yang, 2011: 12). This sovereign power in contemporary China is seen to be growing even stronger to form a new pattern of governance that combines 'earlier Maoist socialism, nationalist and developmentalist practices and the discourses of the Communist Party with the more recent market logic' , against which an oligarchic corporate state or neo-socialism is emerging (Dickson, 2007;Nonini, 2008: 145;Pieke, 2009). Foucault (1988) points out a direction in which technologies of power and of the self intertwine to produce a positive and active subject.…”

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A Failure in ‘Designed Citizenship’: A Case Study in a Minority-Han Merger School in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Lin¹

2016

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Drawing upon the theses of State racism (Michel Foucault), homo sacer (Giorgio Agamben), and safe citizenship (Cynthia Weber), and fieldwork data collected from a multiethnic primary school in Xinjiang, this paper examines the way in which the state agencies of the local government, the school and mainstream citizens design citizenship for Uyghurs, and how Uyghurs interpret and act upon their citizenship. The findings show why, and how, designed citizenship by the mainstream system for Uyghurs has failed to produce a desirably productive force for the prosperity of both the Uyghur community and society at large. The findings require reconsideration of what could be a win-win citizenship for both the state and the citizen.

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“…This result is somewhat surprising as we may have expected a di↵erence between the two groups, but when controlling for other characteristics this is not the case. This may be due to the fact that the party actively recruits the wealthy and highly educated (Dickson, 2007) such that falsification may be the result of these factors rather than party membership per se. Indeed, when controls are excluded from the estimates of support for censorship up to 26% of party members falsify whereas only 18% falsify among non members.…”

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Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: Response Bias in Measures of Popular Support in China

Robinson

Tannenberg

2018

SSRN Journal

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Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualization and measurement of democracy. The headquarters the V-Dem Institute is based at the University of Gothenburg with 17 sta↵, and a project team across the world with 6 Principal Investigators, 14 Project Managers, 30 Regional Managers, 170 Country Coordinators, Research Assistants, and 3,000 Country Experts, the V-Dem project is one of the largest ever social science research-oriented data collection programs.Please address comments and/or queries for information to: AbstractThe study of popular support for authoritarian regimes, and the comparative study of political attitudes, has long relied on the assumption that survey respondents provide truthful answers on surveys. However, when measuring regime support in closed political systems there is a distinct risk that individuals are less than forthright due to fear that their opinions may be made known to the public or the authorities. In order to test this assumption, we conducted a novel web-based survey in China in which we included four list experiments of commonly used items in the comparative literature on regime support. We find systematic bias for all four measures as a result of selfcensorship; substantially more individuals state that they support the regime with direct questioning than do when presented with our anonymous, indirect list experiments. The level of self-censorship, which ranges from 16 to 22 percentage points, is considerably higher than previously thought. Selfcensorship is further most prevalent among the wealthy, urban, female and younger respondents. These findings indicate that prior studies that have found high levels of support for the Chinese regime using these particular measures likely overestimate the true level of support. Further, crossnational studies which compare popular support across regime type may be systematically biased if responses are not subject to the same level of falsification across regime types.The most elegant way to adjust to censorship is to engage in self-censorship. It is the perfect method for allying with power and setting the stage for mutual exchange of benefit.

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Integrating Wealth and Power in China: The Communist Party's Embrace of the Private Sector

Cited by 158 publications

References 3 publications

The strength of interconnectedness between structure and culture: market development in the presence of over-embedded social structure in the lime market of Hui Town

The strength of interconnectedness between structure and culture: market development in the presence of over-embedded social structure in the lime market of Hui Town

A Failure in ‘Designed Citizenship’: A Case Study in a Minority-Han Merger School in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: Response Bias in Measures of Popular Support in China

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