LEADER 04090nam 22005775 450 001 9910136678303321 005 20240422103032.0 010 $a0-674-97436-0 010 $a0-674-97434-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674974340 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907436 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717451 035 $a(DE-B1597)479744 035 $a(OCoLC)984614373 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674974340 035 $a(PPN)19924913X 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907436 100 $a20190920d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aChina's Crony Capitalism $eThe Dynamics of Regime Decay 210 1$aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (376 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Origins of Crony Capitalism: How Institutional Changes Incentivize Corruption --$t2. The Soil of Crony Capitalism: Where Corruption Thrives --$t3. Public Offices for Sale: An Illicit Market for Political Power --$t4. Cronyism in Action: Collusion between Officials and Businessmen --$t5. Stealing from the State: Collusive Corruption in State- Owned Enterprises --$t6. In Bed with the Mafia: Collusion between Law Enforcement and Organized Crime --$t7. The Spread of Collusion: The Party- State in Decay --$tConclusion --$tAppendix --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aWhen Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people's paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China's Crony Capitalism traces the origins of China's present-day troubles to the series of incomplete reforms from the post-Tiananmen era that decentralized the control of public property without clarifying its ownership. Beginning in the 1990s, changes in the control and ownership rights of state-owned assets allowed well-connected government officials and businessmen to amass huge fortunes through the systematic looting of state-owned property-in particular land, natural resources, and assets in state-run enterprises. Mustering compelling evidence from over two hundred corruption cases involving government and law enforcement officials, private businessmen, and organized crime members, Minxin Pei shows how collusion among elites has spawned an illicit market for power inside the party-state, in which bribes and official appointments are surreptitiously but routinely traded. This system of crony capitalism has created a legacy of criminality and entrenched privilege that will make any movement toward democracy difficult and disorderly. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Chinese Communist Party rule, Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China's facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay. 606 $aPolitisk korruption$2FBC 606 $aKapitalisme$2FBC 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$zChina$2FBC 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zChina 607 $aChina$xEconomic conditions$y1976-2000 607 $aChina$xEconomic conditions$y2000- 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y1976-2002 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y2002- 615 7$aPolitisk korruption 615 7$aKapitalisme 615 7$aElite (Social sciences) 615 0$aPower (Social sciences) 676 $a330.95100000000002 686 $a301$2FBC 700 $aPei$b Minxin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0501218 701 $aPei$b Minxin$0501218 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136678303321 996 $aChina's crony capitalism$91472003 997 $aUNINA