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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …
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The paper investigates the influence of outside options on the predatory behavior of autocrats. An outside option is referred to as the opportunity of an incumbent ruler to continue his career outside his current territory of control. The paper uses data on the effectiveness of tax collection...
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We use a unique dataset based on reported direct personal bribes paid by arts students in China at examinations and in …
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A large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas. Therefore, local mitigation policies have to play an important role in any effective global climate protection strategy. Based upon a literature review, this article gives an overview of drivers and barriers for local...
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China's national leaders see restructuring and diversification away from resourcebased, energy intensive industries as … 2010 and 2011, the paper highlights the salience of frequent leadership turnover for China's green growth ambitions. …
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behavioral coordination game between local officials and private businessmen. With field facts in China, this study suggests that …
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institutional changes during China's market reform, giving special attention to the integrated effects of economic and political … much risk they will take. China's market reform has been largely framed in the prospects of economic gains, for which the … continuously growing private sector is the driving force. China's central government adopts a growth-oriented incremental reform …
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"cities". In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units …, during which the local government gets many benefits. Using a large panel data set covering all counties in China during 1993 … about China’s politics of governance: where does power lie in China? …
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An important but often neglected factor influencing the changes in power relations in Eurasia is the development of center-periphery relations in individual countries. Domestic and international politics are never clearly separated, especially in the emerging post-Soviet states, which still...
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