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Bezig met laden... Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary Chinadoor Kellee S. Tsai
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Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product. Yet despite the optimistic predictions of political observers and global business leaders, the triumph of capitalism has not led to substantial democratic reforms.In Capitalism without Democracy, Kellee S. Tsai focuses on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth. The famous images from 1989 of China's new capitalists supporting the students in Tiananmen Square are, Tsai finds, outdated and misleading. Chinese entrepreneurs are not agitating for democracy. Most are working eighteen-hour days to stay in business, while others are saving for their one child's education or planning to leave the country. Many are Communist Party members. "Remarkably," Tsai writes, "most entrepreneurs feel that the system generally works for them."Tsai regards the "idian activities of Chinese entrepreneurs as subtler and possibly more effective than voting, lobbying, and protesting in the streets. Indeed, major reforms in China's formal institutions have enhanced the private sector's legitimacy and security in the absence of mobilization by business owners. In discreet collaboration with local officials, entrepreneurs have created a range of adaptive informal institutions, which in turn, have fundamentally altered China's political and regulatory landscape. Based on years of research, hundreds of field interviews, and a sweeping nationwide survey of private entrepreneurs funded by the National Science Foundation, Capitalism without Democracy explodes the conventional wisdom about the relationship between economic liberalism and political freedom. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Ms. Tsai discusses the chance that Chinese entrepreneurs will demand democratic reform of communist rule. From the various viewpoints possible, she has chosen the relationship between entrepreneurs and the state, which mainly relates to licensing, taxation and the availability of credit.
Unsurprisingly, the way entrepreneurs perceive the state depends very much on their background. Regional differences play a role too, as does Chinese culture with its emphasis on personal contacts.
Additionally, the author stresses the importance of the flexibility of the political system that has proven to be able to change and incorporate requirements of the business world.
I found the first chapter of the book full of horrific jargon, but the rest was well written. ( )