China''s Contained Resource Curse - How Minerals Shape State-Capital-Labor Relations

"Based on the findings of the empirical chapters, Chapter 6 recapitulates the impacts that rich mineral resources generate on the state-capital-labor triad in China. It analyzes in detail the Chinese state's coping strategies to mitigate the resource curse at local levels. Moreover, it explains why the Chinese state is able and willing to take the observed strategies to contain the resource curse. The key lies in the Chinese Communist Party-state's strong capacity to penetrate into the economy and the society and also in its top-down monitoring and tight control of the local agents. In the end, this chapter critically evaluates the successes and pitfalls of the China model of resource management"--

List of contents

1. Minerals and the state-capital-labor triad; 2. Minerals, capital, and local economic development; 3. Resource extraction and victimization of labor; 4. Resources and local state capture; 5. Resources and public goods provision; 6. Coping with the resource curse.

About the author

Jing Vivian Zhan is Associate Professor in the Department of Government & Public Administration at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specializes in comparative political economy, contemporary Chinese politics, intergovernmental relations, local governance and development studies.

Summary

This is the first monograph on the socioeconomic and political impacts of minerals on contemporary China, examining the distinctive effects of minerals on the state, capital and labour and their triangular relations. It provides a novel outlook on the resource curse and derives valuable policy implications for resource management.

Foreword

A novel empirical study of the 'resource curse' and the state response in contemporary China.

Product details

• Authors: Jing Vivian Zhan, Jing Vivian (The Chinese University of Hong Zhan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2024
• EAN: 9781009048989
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0904898-9
• No. of pages: 235
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; NATURE / Natural Resources, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political science & theory, Political Economy, Environmental Management, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government, Central government