The literature suggests that the distributive allocations of local public goods help politicians secure support and thus contribute to political survival. We argue that the selective assignment of state-led infrastructure projects can bolster political control in peripheral areas by inducing the government's investment in essential administrative and security apparatus for project implementation and long-term state building. Drawing on a unique county-level dataset, we study the effects of poverty alleviation transfers in Xinjiang. We find that poverty alleviation was associated with significant increases in government spending on public management and security. In contrast, these alleviation transfers had a small and ambiguous effect on in...
Why do authoritarian states impose large-scale public goods provision? Under what circumstances woul...
China has recently joined the upper ranks of the world’s foreign aid donor class, with much of its a...
Recent research on authoritarian regimes argues that they provide public goods in order to prevent r...
The literature suggests that the distributive allocations of local public goods help politicians sec...
Since taking office, president Xi Jinping’s government has granted massive funding to what has becom...
This dissertation investigates the origins of state power and political accountability. How do state...
The broad aim of this article is to analyse the institutions of China’s rural local governments in t...
China has experienced an unprecedented expansion of social welfare benefits in the absence of substa...
China’s recent welfare expansion demonstrates a puzzling case. The welfare expansion has been broad-...
Precision Poverty Alleviation' (PPA) is the Chinese government's latest antipoverty policy, aiming t...
This research uses a case study of Xinjiang to challenge China's reform by addressing the problems r...
In 2014, the Chinese government adopted a version of the controversial Big Push approach to poverty ...
China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the cen...
The 2000s witnessed the third poverty alleviation wave of China. Compared with its predecessors, the...
Ph.D.In developing countries where poverty constituted a political concern, the state might can adop...
Why do authoritarian states impose large-scale public goods provision? Under what circumstances woul...
China has recently joined the upper ranks of the world’s foreign aid donor class, with much of its a...
Recent research on authoritarian regimes argues that they provide public goods in order to prevent r...
The literature suggests that the distributive allocations of local public goods help politicians sec...
Since taking office, president Xi Jinping’s government has granted massive funding to what has becom...
This dissertation investigates the origins of state power and political accountability. How do state...
The broad aim of this article is to analyse the institutions of China’s rural local governments in t...
China has experienced an unprecedented expansion of social welfare benefits in the absence of substa...
China’s recent welfare expansion demonstrates a puzzling case. The welfare expansion has been broad-...
Precision Poverty Alleviation' (PPA) is the Chinese government's latest antipoverty policy, aiming t...
This research uses a case study of Xinjiang to challenge China's reform by addressing the problems r...
In 2014, the Chinese government adopted a version of the controversial Big Push approach to poverty ...
China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the cen...
The 2000s witnessed the third poverty alleviation wave of China. Compared with its predecessors, the...
Ph.D.In developing countries where poverty constituted a political concern, the state might can adop...
Why do authoritarian states impose large-scale public goods provision? Under what circumstances woul...
China has recently joined the upper ranks of the world’s foreign aid donor class, with much of its a...
Recent research on authoritarian regimes argues that they provide public goods in order to prevent r...