… Policy makers and many scholars expect that formation of a private sector will lead… political
change and ultimately democratization. The rapidly growing numbers of private entrepreneurs…

… privately owned enterprises in China from 1997 to 2008, we find that, while very few private
entrepreneurs … , the constitutional change had encouraged many party members to enter the …

… began several years ago to design the research project presented in this book, we drew
insights from previous studies about the political role of private entrepreneurs in China’s political …

… of institutional change by elaborating upon the concept of political entrepreneurship. For our
… creative acts have transformative effects on politics, policies, or institutions. The figure of the …

… private entrepreneurs' strategic action in China's political system and highlights that private
entrepreneurs … China scholars have consistently described China's private entrepreneurs as …

… The purpose of this paper is to explore the key micro factors that are shaping Chinese
entrepreneurship: socio‐political origins, motivations, educational attainment, organisational forms …

… private entrepreneurs’ support for the current political system. The study presented here is
based on data from a representative sample of private entrepreneurs … ’s private entrepreneurs …

… change occurs in all political … of entrepreneurs as agents of change in the public sector.
While most social scientific theories focus on change as occurring in incremental fashion, change …

… private entrepreneurs (NPEs) are playing an increasingly important role in Chinese politics
… of the NPEs through analyzing five main private business groups, including small individual …

… Out of that results a growing interest in political participation, and this interest manifests itself
partially in the impulse on the part of private entrepreneurs to obtain access to membership …