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Chapter 5 - Corrupt and Competent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2020

Yuen Yuen Ang
Yuen Yuen Ang
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Chapter 5 turns to national and local leaders. Profit-sharing among leaders follows a different logic: the more economically prosperous the locality, the more personal rents they can collect as massive graft. By unpacking the career paths of two infamously fallen officials – Bo Xilai (provincial Party secretary of Chongqing) and Ji Jianye (city mayor of Nanjing) – this chapter reveals why deal-making corruption was compatible with aggressive growth promotion. It also fleshes out the structural distortions and risks brought about by access money.

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Corrupt and competentCrony capitalismPrincelingLocal government debtDevelopmental statesMayor BulldozerAccess money as steroids of capitalismCorruption as investment rather than taxElite profit-sharingCompetitive corruption and competitive growth promotionPreferential policies
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China's Gilded Age
The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
 , pp. 119 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Corrupt and Competent
  • Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book: China's Gilded Age
  • Online publication: 08 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778350.005
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  • Corrupt and Competent
  • Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book: China's Gilded Age
  • Online publication: 08 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778350.005
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  • Corrupt and Competent
  • Yuen Yuen Ang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book: China's Gilded Age
  • Online publication: 08 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778350.005
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