{"product_id":"chinas-crony-capitalism-the-dynamics-of-regime-decay-9780674737297","title":"China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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. \u003ci\u003eChina's Crony Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003etraces 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRejecting 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Minxin Pei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674737297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePei, Minxin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Minxin Pei is the author of several books on Chinese domestic politics, including \u003ci\u003eChina's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChina's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43232804044915,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":60.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_31c033e4-7114-47c7-8eb7-be0d2ca9b7c8.jpg?v=1754051777","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/chinas-crony-capitalism-the-dynamics-of-regime-decay-9780674737297","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}