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  • 1 - Introduction

  • Yue Hou, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Private Sector in Public Office
    Published online:
    20 August 2019
    Print publication:
    05 September 2019, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    This chapter underpins the book and presents the argument in summary. China's legislative system provides entrepreneurial actors with opportunities to advance their own interests. In joining local legislatures, private entrepreneurs are building a system of selective property rights. This chapter discusses contribution to the literature of property rights and economic growth, property protection and authoritarian institution. It then introduces the methodology and data. It ends with a roadmap for the rest of the book.