2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Understanding the Model of Governance in China: Party-state's Integration with Business Entities
Project/Area Number |
16K17060
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Politics
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Research Institution | International University of Japan |
Principal Investigator |
Macikenaite Vida 国際大学, 国際関係学研究科, 講師(移行) (10773004)
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Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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Keywords | state-business relations / Chinese party-state / state-owned enterprises / economic elites / state capacity / cooptation |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
There has been a lot of confusion about the role that the executives of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOE) play in the Chinese political system - are they they independent profit-oriented actors or are they they the executors of official policies both domestically and overseas. The project has analyzed how economic elite mobility between the Chinese party-state and Chinese business entities has been utilized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its strategy to improve state capacity, specifically to govern SOE system-related matters, and also to stabilize the regime by incorporating the economic elites (not also from SOEs but also private companies) into the party-state system (co-optation strategy).
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Free Research Field |
comparative politics
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This research exposes how the nexus between the party-state and business in China has contributed to the stability of the single-party regime. It also enhances our understanding of how to evaluate Chinese SOE activities overseas and better understand private business relations with the party-state.
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