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    gbv_1668193574
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 60 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8837
    Content: This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the role of factional competition and local accountability in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China. When the Communist armies took over Fujian from the Nationalist control circa 1949, Communist cadres from two different army factions were assigned as county leaders. For decades the Fujian Provincial Standing Committee of the Communist Party had been dominated by members from one particular faction, which we refer as the strong faction. Counties also differed in whether there was local guerrilla presence prior to the Communist takeover. The model predicts that county leaders from the strong faction were less likely to pursue policies friendly to local development, because their political survival relied more on their loyalty to the provincial leader than on the grassroots support from local residents. In contrast, the political survival of county leaders from the weak faction was based more on local grassroots support, which could be best secured if these leaders focused on local development. In addition, the local guerrilla presence in the county further improved the development performance either because it intensified local accountability of the county leader, or because it better facilitated the provision of local public goods beneficial to development. The paper finds consistent and robust evidence supporting these assumptions; being affiliated with weak factions and having local accountability are both associated with sizable long-term benefits in terms of growth, education, private-sector development, and survival in the Great Famine. The paper also finds that being affiliated with the strong faction and adopting pro-local policies are associated with higher likelihood of political survival. The empirical findings here suggest that factional competition contributes to efficiency in non-democratic countries, and that local accountability is a key ingredient for balanced development
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fang, Hanming Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development: County-Level Evidence from a Chinese Province Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Author information: Fang, Hanming
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    UID:
    gbv_1748312065
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9781684170944 , 9780674983816
    Series Statement: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law 110
    Content: 1. The discovery of Daqing: The search for oil -- The weakness of the state industrialization plan -- Daqing: the great celebration -- Construction (jianshe): building a new China -- 2. Production first, livelihood second: Daqing: the battlefield -- Total mobilization -- An alternative landscape -- Battlefield communism: integration of state and society -- 3. Breakthrough on a narrow front: The political economy of building construction -- Planning without cities -- "More, faster, better, and more economic" -- 4. Celebrating Daqing: the correct path for industrialization -- Learning from Daqing -- Worker-peasant villages on the oil field -- Cities and buildings based on the Daqing model -- Industrialization without urbanization -- 5. Living in an urban-rural heterotopia: The factory as a production machine -- The factory as a work-study school -- The factory as a battle field -- 6. Challenging the Daqing model: The red flag on the industrial front -- Growing industrial agglomeration -- The great leap outward -- The sinking of the oil rig.
    Content: "Examines Chinese urbanization and industrialization strategies for a model petroleum city, Daquing, during the early years of the People's Republic. It concerns the politics of building, the pursuit of food, energy and resources, and the everyday lives of the working men and women who inhabited China's northeastern frontier"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Building for Oil : Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2018
    Language: English
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