Institutional Change Under the Impact of an Evolving Private Sector in the PRC

The Case of Opening the Party to Private Entrepreneurs - RESEARCH NOTE

Abstract

Along with the renunciation of central planning, declining capacities of the Chinese party-state in the local political institutions have at least since the mid-1990s become visible. From a regime-centred perspective, the shifting of resources and authority from higher to lower levels of the party-state and the new local alliances between officials and private entrepreneurs attracted much attention.