Revolutionary Legacy Power Structure And Grassroots Capitalism Under The Red Flag In China
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Revolutionary Legacy, Power Structure, and Grassroots Capitalism under the Red Flag in China
Author: Qi Zhang
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2020-11-05
Why do political elites in authoritarian regimes, even within the same country, engage in different levels of predatory behavior, whereby some foster vibrant capitalism and others suffocate the innovative private sector? This book proposes a theory of localized property-rights protection under authoritarianism. By combining in-depth fieldwork with archival research and quantitative data analysis, Qi Zhang and Mingxing Liu discuss the post-1949 conflicts between dominant and marginalized factions in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. These conflicts resulted in systemic vulnerabilities among the marginalized local cadres, thus motivating them to form alliances with their grassroots constituents. They therefore provided their constituents with quasi-public goods, such as property-rights protection, to increase their odds of political survival. Zhang and Liu argue that this framework can apply both to the Mao era and to the current reform era, and it also can be extended beyond China to a wider context.
Revolutionary Legacy, Power Structure, and Grassroots Capitalism Under the Red Flag in China
Author: Qi Zhang
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2019-03-21
Shows that in a predatory regime localized property rights protection is possible due to elite cleavage within the regime.
Unending Capitalism
Author: Karl Gerth
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2020-05-14
In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.