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The Changing Face of China’s Local Elite: Elite Advantage and Path Dependence in Business Communities
- Source :
- Chinese Political Science Review. 3:115-128
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- There has been considerable discussion about whether and how China’s political economy will change with economic growth and development. The debate has focused for the most part on the possibilities for either market transition or continued path dependence, and in particular, research has centred on the emergence of business activities and the changing role of local business elites. The results of interviews with 469 members of the new economic elites in five cities suggest that while local politics may indeed have adjusted to the new environment, in elite formation, the market plays a role alongside and sometimes secondary to status and political power. There is a significant pattern of elite privilege that reaches back into the era of state socialism, with further origins for some to be found in the pre-1949 local elites. Even where there are reasons to be sceptical about long-term status claims, there can be no gainsaying the strength of such narratives as motivational forces in business and elite behaviour.
- Subjects :
- 050402 sociology
Sociology and Political Science
05 social sciences
Face (sociological concept)
0506 political science
Power (social and political)
Politics
State socialism
0504 sociology
Political science
Political economy
8. Economic growth
Political Science and International Relations
Elite
050602 political science & public administration
Economic system
China
Privilege (social inequality)
Path dependence
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23654252 and 23654244
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chinese Political Science Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c272e1c7818d78652f0899fd41570ee7