Private Sector in Public Office - Selective Property Rights in China

Examines how the private sector in China manages to grow without secure property rights.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Selective property rights; 3. Private entrepeneurs in legislative office; 4. Motivations to run; 5. Protection from predation; 6. Legislator status and political capital; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Yue Hou is Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include political economy and authoritarian politics, with a regional focus on China. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and Social Science Quarterly, and has been featured in the New York Times and the Boston Review. She also writes articles for Chinese media outlets including the Southern Weekly and Tencent ipress.

Summary

This book addresses the long-standing puzzle of how China's private sector manages to grow without secure property rights. Drawing on rich empirical evidence, this book challenges existing theories of property rights and growth, and shows that a selective property rights regime can generate and sustain economic growth and political stability.

Product details

• Authors: Yue Hou, Yue (University of Pennsylvania) Hou
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108498159
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49815-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Comparative Politics