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6 - Legislator Status and Political Capital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2019

Yue Hou
Yue Hou
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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This chapter tests the key mechanism: the political status of a legislator sends a credible signal of strong political connections to low-level bureaucrats, which deters expropriations. This mechanism is supported by interview evidence, a case study and two national audit experiments on local government officials. I show that Chinese bureaucrats are much more likely to respond to entrepreneurs with connections to local legislatures, while being a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member does not trigger any preferential behavior of bureaucrats toward entrepreneurs.

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political capitalaudit experimenttesting mechanisms
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The Private Sector in Public Office
Selective Property Rights in China
 , pp. 127 - 155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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