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050 00 $aJQ1509.5.C6$bP45 2016
082 00 $a330.951$223
100 1 $aPei, Minxin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aChina's crony capitalism :$bthe dynamics of regime decay /$cMinxin Pei.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2016.
300 $a365 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe origin of crony capitalism: how institutional changes incentivize corruption -- The soil of crony capitalism: where corruption thrives -- Public office for sale: an illicit market for political power -- Cronyism in action: collusion between officials and businessmen -- Stealing from the state: collusive corruption in state-owned enterprises -- In bed with the mafia: collusion between law enforcement and organized crime -- The spread of collusion: the party-state in decay.
520 $a"When Deng Xiaoping launched his economic reforms in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." Three and half decades later, behind its rapid growth and glitzy fac ʹade, modernization under one-party rule has spawned a form of rapacious crony capitalism characterized by endemic corruption, an incipient kleptocracy, record income inequality, and high social tensions. This book traces the origin of China's crony capitalism to a set of incomplete reforms of property rights in the post-Tiananmen era that have decentralized the control of public property without clarifying its ownership. This combination has created an ideal environment for political and economic elites to collude and amass private wealth through systematic theft of nominally state-owned property, in particular land, natural resources, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Based on illuminating details from 260 well-researched cases of corruption involved multiple officials and businessmen since the early 1990s, this study investigates how collusion among elites has penetrated the vital sectors of the Chinese political and economic systems. These cases reveal a well-developed illicit market for power inside the Chinese party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. They also document the widespread theft inside Chinese SOEs and collusion between law enforcement officials and organized crime. Above all, through its in-depth analysis of the exchange of money for favors between government officials and private businessmen, the study shines a spotlight on the dark world of crony capitalism in China - and a Leninist regime in late-stage decay."--$cProvided by publisher
610 20 $aZhongguo gong chan dang.
650 0 $aPolitical corruption$zChina.
650 0 $aCapitalism$zChina.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$zChina.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences)$zChina.
651 0 $aChina$xEconomic conditions$y1976-2000.
651 0 $aChina$xEconomic conditions$y2000-
651 0 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y1976-2002.
651 0 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y2002-
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