This paper investigates the question of how state policy influences the interactions between
cadres (party bureaucrats) and private entrepreneurs in China. We argue that state …

This article examines the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
membership and private entrepreneurship in China since 2002, the year when the party …

China scholars have consistently described China's private entrepreneurs as politically co-
opted by the Communist Party regime. Since China's economic development now …

This article examines the intensity and sources of Chinese private entrepreneurs' support for
the current political system. The study presented here is based on data from a representative …

IN 1978, DURING THE THIRD PLENUM OF THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL party congress,
Deng Xiaoping initiated a new economic policy that was to have dramatic economic and …

The sweeping change in political economy associated with the rapid growth of the private
sector in China is rarely studied empirically in the economics literature. Using four cross …

This article questions predictions about China's democratic potential based on rising
incomes in the private sector. For private entrepreneurs to constitute a democratizing force …

Using survey data of enterprises and entrepreneurs from Liuzhou, Guangxi, China, the
determinants of political participation of private enterprises are studied. We find (1) …

This book provides a fresh perspective on the political agency of private entrepreneurs in
contemporary China. Most Chinese scholarship describes this group as being politically …

This article, the product of several years of extensive fieldwork, seeks to reinvigorate the
debate on China's private entrepreneurs by arguing that they have become a “strategic …