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On the basis of survey data on Chinese private enterprises over the years, we try to respond to the classic subject of “the social composition of private entrepreneurs (siyingqiyezhu 私营企业主).” In nearly forty years of development, the overall composition of private entrepreneurs has undergone major changes…

This article traces the socioeconomic origins of the first generation of the visibly richest private entrepreneurs in China by analysing the roles of political background, family connections and culture capital. Based on a data set essentially reconstructed from two leading Chinese rich lists from 2003 to 2012, the author finds no clear evidence to support the hypothesis of “strong political capitalism”…

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze people’s confidence in political institutions in the so-called BRICS countries, that is, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. I argue that the quality of macroeconomic indicators cannot explain the variation in political confidence between the five most dynamic new emerging economies…

Choosing individual private entrepreneurs to be members of the People’s Congress (PC) or the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is one of the most important mechanisms for “cooperative capitalism” in China…

Some scholars think that the term post-communism is now useless, because the outcomes of transition are consolidated in those former state socialist European countries. But ongoing economic, social, and political transformations in China negate the theory of “end of postcommunism”…