Political Participation by Business Owners

Following gradual economic reforms, the private sector has become an increasingly important ingredient in the Chinese economy. However, private entrepreneurs have long been discriminated against in different ways. The aim of this research program is to improve our understanding of how private business owners accumulate political capital in order to facilitate preferential treatment.

Projects in this program include:

• Political Participation and Entrepreneurial Initial Public Offerings in
  China (forthcoming in Journal of Comparative Economics)
  
  
• Escaping Political Extraction: Political Participation, Institutions, and Cash Holdings in China
  
  
• Mixing Business with Politics: Political Participation by Entrepreneurs in China
  
  
• The State Advances, the Private Sector Retreats: Firm Effects of China's Great Stimulus Program

SCERI Program Participant:  Dr. Anders C. Johansson

Affiliations of Collaborating Scholars: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shanghai University

Funding: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (RJ) and the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) and Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse