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Collusion, Local Governments and Development in China

A Reflection on the China Model

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Authors:
  1. Huihua Nie

    1. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

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  • Considers the impact of collusion at national and local levels on Chinese society and economy
  • Examines specific areas of coalmine mortality, environmental pollution and food safety
  • Offers an analysis of future prospects for the China model and possibilities for reform
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. An Anatomy of the China Model from the Perspective of Collusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-22

    3. Government–Firm Collusion: A New Analytical Framework

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      Pages 23-53

    4. Collusion and Coalmine Accidents

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      Pages 55-75

    5. Collusion and House Prices

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      Pages 77-105

    6. Pollution, Illegal Land Use, and Other Major Social Problems

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      Pages 107-121

  3. The Impact of Collusion and Institutional Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. The Impact of Collusion on Corporate Behaviors and Political Performance Assessment

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      Pages 125-153

    3. The Impact of Collusion on Government Behaviors

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      Pages 155-166

    4. The Impact of Collusion on Social Development

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      Pages 167-188

    5. Institutional Environment of Collusion

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      Pages 189-202

    6. Reform Prospects of the China Model

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      Pages 203-228

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 229-249
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About this book

By analyzing the interactions between China’s central government and its local governments and enterprises, this book constructs an analytical framework of government-enterprise collusion, analyzing the impact of collusion within the China model on Chinese society. Against the background of decentralization and under information asymmetry, this text argues that Chinese local governments connive at enterprises’ adoption of a low-cost ‘bad’ mode of production — a ‘stimulus’ for quick growth at the cost of safer working conditions — so as to obtain fiscal or political capital for further promotion. Through an examination of coalmine mortality rate, environmental pollution, food safety and house pricing, the book argues that collusion is the intrinsic drive of the China model. It consider how against a backdrop of political centralization and economic decentralization, collusion exacerbates corruption and impacts both on the country’s social development and on its foreign direct investment. Offering an analysis of future prospects for the China model, it puts forward key policy proposals to improve domestic institutional construction through reform.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

    Huihua Nie

About the author

Dr Huihua Nie is a Professor at Renmin University, China and a postdoctoral fellow of Oliver Hart at Harvard University. His major research provinces are contract theory and institutional economics. He has contributed to China Social Sciences, the Review of Economics & Statistics and the Journal of Comparative Economics.

Dr Haifeng Li is an Associate Professor at the Sichuan International Studies University, China and was a visiting fellow of Language Teaching Program as a second language at Edinburgh University, UK. He has contributed to the Chinese Translators’ Journal and Foreign Languages and Literature and written two translation textbooks. 



Ping Chen is a Lecturer at College of Foreign Languages of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Collusion, Local Governments and Development in China

  • Book Subtitle: A Reflection on the China Model

  • Authors: Huihua Nie

  • Translated by: Haifeng Li, Ping Chen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5059-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5058-9Published: 07 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5307-9Published: 12 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5059-6Published: 22 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 249

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Asian Economics, Environmental Sociology, Urban Studies/Sociology

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