China's Crony Capitalism : The Dynamics of Regime Decay

Minxin Pei

ISBN 10: 0674737296 / ISBN 13: 9780674737297

Edité par Harvard University Press Okt 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Chinäs efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath Chinäs facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.

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• Titre: China's Crony Capitalism : The Dynamics of Regime Decay
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press Okt 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674737296
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674737297
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 146 H x 32 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 146 millimètres de hauteur par 32 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 589 grammes

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Synopsis

When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than three decades later, China s efforts to modernise have yielded something very different from the working people s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterised by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China s Crony Capitalism traces the origins of China s present-day troubles to the series of incomplete reforms from the post-Tiananmen era that decentralised the control of public property without clarifying its ownership.

Beginning in the 1990s, changes in the control and ownership rights of state-owned assets allowed well-connected government officials and businessmen to amass huge fortunes through the systematic looting of state-owned property in particular land, natural resources, and assets in state-run enterprises. Mustering compelling evidence from over two hundred corruption cases involving government and law enforcement officials, private businessmen, and organised crime members, Minxin Pei shows how collusion among elites has spawned an illicit market for power inside the party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. This system of crony capitalism has created a legacy of criminality and entrenched privilege that will make any movement toward democracy difficult and disorderly.

Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Chinese Communist Party rule, Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.

À propos de l?auteur

Minxin Pei is Tom and Margot Pritzker 72 Professor of Government and Roberts Fellow, and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College.