We argue that leadership promotion in China's political elite relies on homophily for signals
of trustworthiness and future cooperative behavior more than on economic performance. We …

Recent scholarship suggests that authoritarian leaders may use seemingly democratic
institutions to strengthen their own rule. In this vein, China's leaders attempted to rein in local …

How does the degree of centralization and decentralization of political control affect
economic performance? To investigate this question, we gather and analyze a …

Green investment plays a crucial role in bolstering pollution control efforts and enhancing
environmental quality. As an influential financial instrument, Green Finance has gained …

Green technology innovation is crucial to green transformation. Accordingly, the influence of
Chinese-style fiscal decentralization on green technology innovation is contingent on …

Although regional policy experimentation has become a global trend, the distinct features of
experimentalist governance in a given country, such as China, remains to be investigated …

Most analyses of China's foreign and security policies treat China as a unitary actor,
assuming a cohesive grand strategy articulated by Beijing. I challenge this conventional …

To explain China's dramatic economic growth, researchers have proposed a “tournament
thesis.” According to this thesis, the central government's ability to set growth targets has …

This is a global study of government subsidies to attract investment. The book shows how
corporations use site selection as rent extraction, with developing countries investing more …