Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change

By Susan H. Whiting. 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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• From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History behind China's Economic Boom (2014, unknown): “Of particular importance was a new system of performance evaluation for sub-national officials based on quantitative algorithms that assigned heavy weight to GDP growth in the region under an official’s jurisdiction (Susan H. Whiting 2001).”
• Politicians and the IPO decision: The impact of impending political promotions on IPO activity in China (2014, background): “Such performance- 26 Whiting (2000) argues that the fiscal reforms of the early 1980s placed the responsibility for local revenue generation on the shoulders of the local officials, as local governments were required to be largely self-financing.”
• Institutional Innovations, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Kunshan, in Post-Mao China (2007, background): “In an attempt to encompass a wide range of functions at the local level, the indicators for evaluating performances were wide, including the gross value of industrial output, tax remittances, realized infrastructure investments, and so on (Edin, 2000; 2003; Whiting, 2001 ).”
• New local state power through administrative restructuring – A case study of post-Mao China county-level urban entrepreneurialism in Kunshan (2013, background): “Whether local leaders are able to accomplish their promises is thus a key criterion in promotion, retention of one’s position, and demotion (Whiting, 2001; Edin, 2003; Tsui andWang, 2004, 2008).”
• GDP management to meet or beat growth targets (2018, background): “Second, under China’s economy-first policy and its one-party political system, local government officials are evaluated on the basis of their ability to deliver economic growth (Li and Zhou, 2005; Whiting, 2001).”