China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly
inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to …

In the aftermath of the East Asian crisis and Japan's prolonged economic downturn, many
observers considered that East Asia's distinctive model of state-led development had …

Despite the absence of formal institutions to constrain opportunistic behavior, some
autocracies successfully attract private investment. Prior work explains such success by the …

Do special economic zones induce local development? Research drawing on the case of
China's special economic zones suggests that subnational polities can target the location of …

Scholars credit policy experimentation with China's economic reforms and authoritarian
resilience. This article traces the evolution of experimentation through the prism of varying …

Drawing on political opportunity and resource dependency theories, this paper traces the
development of 28 environmental NGOs (eNGOs) in China and examines the political and …

This article builds theoretical linkages between the political mobility of local officials and the
dynamic diffusion of innovation in decentralized authoritarian China. We built two datasets …

The impact of Chinese-style fiscal decentralization (FD) on environmental pollution has
been studied. Using data from 285 prefecture-level cities across the country from 2003 to …

Over the past two decades, China has rapidly increased its spending on its public pension
programs, to the point that pension funding is one of the government's largest expenditures …