Did Government Decentralization Cause China's Economic Miracle?

By Hongbin Cai, D. Treisman. 2006

371 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Xiaobo Lü
2. Scott Gehlbach
3. S. Heilmann
4. Junyan Jiang
5. Xufeng Zhu
6. Haiyan Duan
7. Philip E. Keefer
8. P. Landry

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Junyan Jiang
2. Xufeng Zhu
3. Scott Gehlbach
4. Xiaobo Lü
5. S. Heilmann
6. Haiyan Duan
7. Philip E. Keefer
8. P. Landry

Citations in the corpus

• Policy Experimentation in China’s Economic Rise (2008, background): “1995; Yang 1997), or as a second-best approach forced onto reformists by the need to broaden their base of political support while avoiding ideological controversies and keeping factional rivals at bay (see Shirk 1994; Woo 1999; Cai and Treisman 2006). 4 St Comp Int Dev (2008) 43:1–26”
• Mandate Versus Championship: Vertical government intervention and diffusion of innovation in public services in authoritarian China (2014, background): “The central government, after evaluating the economic benefits and political risks caused by local government experimentations, has the authority to promote or terminate a project through administrative commands (Cai and Treisman 2006; Heilmann 2008a).”
• Making Bureaucracy Work: Patronage Networks, Performance Incentives, and Economic Development in China (2018, background): “…initiatives.18 In a well-known example, Deng Xiaoping relied on two of his loyal protégés, Wan Li and Zhao Ziyang, to spearhead agriculture reforms in key provinces during the late 1970s when the overall political climate was still against economic liberalization (Cai and Treisman 2006).”
• Investment without Democracy: Ruling-Party Institutionalization and Credible Commitment in Autocracies (2011, result): “Another, consistent with our analysis, was to increase transparency regarding leader-cadre interactions, in part through personnel reforms in 1980 that shifted promotion 17 Cai and Treisman (2006) also revisit the role of decentralization in China’s economic success.”
• Does Performance Matter? Evaluating Political Selection Along the Chinese Administrative Ladder (2018, background): “Local officials are appointed by higher level governments that are tightly controlled by the CCP (Bo, 2002; Cai & Treisman, 2006).”