Environmental Clientelism: How Chinese Private Enterprises Lobby under Environmental Crackdowns

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Abstract China's environmental crackdowns under Xi Jinping have led to a sweeping shutdown of private enterprises. To circumvent this, enterprises developed different survival strategies including direct lobbying government officials and indirect through business associations. Based on comparative case studies in Chinese cities, our research finds that larger enterprises, enjoying more economic leverage, tend lobby directly using their own political connections sway enforcement. By contrast, smaller are excluded from these clientelist networks associations, the effectiveness which hinges support large Therefore, we argue although government's increasingly stringent policies shrunk (and living) space for existence clientelism protects economically powerful politically connected but sacrifices others implementation policies.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: The China Quarterly

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['0305-7410', '0009-4439', '1468-2648']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741023000188