Unpacking administrative rank: Intercity competition and the remaking of local state space in China

Su, Xiaobo

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102518

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“…However, the party-state's distinctive structural force in China is increasingly studied in a manner that differs from that of Western political economics (Lim, 2017). For instance, the laws of inter-city competition are not only related to attracting (global) capital investment but also structured around upward accountability (Chien, 2010) and performance-based promotion in politics (Guo, 2020;Guo and Liu, 2022;Su, 2022;Zhang, 2022). In the 'political capitalism' system, capitalist profits come from political power (Weber, 1978(Weber, [1922); in China, the party-state itself exists as an institution (Chien, 2013;Lauridsen and Zeuthen, 2022).…”

Section: Addressing State Society and Market Relationshipmentioning

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Positioning China’s state entrepreneurialism in structural coherence and multiple logics

Deng

2023

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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This paper reviews the literature on state entrepreneurialism. It clarifies the theoretical construction of state entrepreneurialism in the historical context and identifies the tension between the structural coherence for capital accumulation and the multiple logics by the state. This paper also compares state entrepreneurialism with other alternative studies on Chinese urban governance, thus revealing its structuralist roots of conceptualisation. Its distinctive ontological understanding of China’s urban governance emphasises structural coherence. We call for rethinking the evolving structural coherence underlying the strategic reconstruction in the recent decade in which the party-state plays a central role.

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“…This is a critical difference between state entrepreneurialism and Harvey’s (1989) original notion of urban entrepreneurialism. The Chinese version of the ‘coercive laws of competition’ (Harvey, 1989: 12) is joined by the significant role of the state (Su, 2022).…”

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Positioning China’s state entrepreneurialism in structural coherence and multiple logics

Deng

2023

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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The role of spillovers when evaluating regional development interventions: evidence from administrative upgrading in China

Zhang,

Li,

Gibson

2024

Lett Spat Resour Sci

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Direct effects of regional development interventions on targeted areas may be amplified by positive spillovers from elsewhere or offset by negative spillovers. Yet spillovers are often ignored in the applied literature, where impact analyses based on difference-in-differences typically treat spatial units as independent of their neighbours. We study spatial spillovers from a popular regional development intervention in China—converting counties to cities. China’s top-down approach lets only central government bestow city status on an area, with over ten percent of counties upgraded to cities in the last two decades. A growing literature estimates impacts of these conversions, with spatial units typically treated as independent of their neighbours. In contrast, our spatial econometric models use a 20-year panel for almost 2500 county-level units to allow indirect spillover effects on indicators of local economic activity. The positive direct effects on GDP and luminosity of a county being upgraded are amplified through positive indirect effects, especially in the eastern regions of China where economic activity and population are more densely concentrated. The models without spatial lags that ignore spillovers give estimated effects of converting counties to cities that are only two-fifths to two-thirds as large as the estimated effects coming from the spatial models.

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Using a hybrid Delphi hierarchical process, the development of a holistic index to measure city competitiveness in Malaysia: a case study from Penang Island

Bagheri

Adam²,

Jaafar³

et al. 2022

Model. Earth Syst. Environ.

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Unpacking administrative rank: Intercity competition and the remaking of local state space in China

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Positioning China’s state entrepreneurialism in structural coherence and multiple logics

Positioning China’s state entrepreneurialism in structural coherence and multiple logics

The role of spillovers when evaluating regional development interventions: evidence from administrative upgrading in China

Using a hybrid Delphi hierarchical process, the development of a holistic index to measure city competitiveness in Malaysia: a case study from Penang Island

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