ID | 153569 |
Title Proper | Private entrepreneurs as a strategic group in the Chinese polity |
Language | ENG |
Author | Schubert, Gunter |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | China scholars have consistently described China’s private entrepreneurs as politically co-opted by the Communist Party regime. Since China’s economic development now overwhelmingly depends on the performance of the private sector, the political dynamics and power confi gurations within the current regime coalition between state and business may have seen change over the past decade. Drawing on the recent literature on state-business relations and fi eldwork conducted in diff erent provinces, cities, and counties since 2012, this paper hypothesizes that private entrepreneurs are a “strategic group” in Chinese politics. By working through the multidimensional networks that crisscross diff erent party-state units, administrative levels, and formal institutions such as business associations and local parliamentary bodies all over the country, private entrepreneurs act collectively, albeit in (as yet) uncoordinated ways. By looking closely at the evolving governmentbusiness nexus in China’s local state, this article sheds new light on private entrepreneurs’ strategic action in China’s political system and highlights that private entrepreneurs are increasingly infl uential within the existing regime coalition. |
`In' analytical Note | China Review Vol. 17, No.2; Jun 2017: p. 95–122 |
Journal Source | China Review 2017-08 17, 2 |
Key Words | Economic Development ; China ; Private Entrepreneurs ; Communist Party Regime |