IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rripxx/v29y2022i5p1477-1496.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Factional politics and foreign direct investment in China

Author

Listed:
  • Jingnan Liu

Abstract

This article uses quantitative analysis to discuss the effects of the Chinese Communist Party’s factional politics on the regional distribution of foreign direct investment inflows from 1993 to 2017. Empirical evidence shows that provincial leaders’ personal connections with the CCP’s incumbent general secretary had positive and statistically significant effects on the annual growth rate of provincial foreign direct investment inflows. These effects were more salient in inland provinces and during Xi era. These findings challenge the conventional wisdom about the evolution of institutions under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and demonstrate the importance of informal politics in promoting China’s economic reform and prosperity.

Suggested Citation

  • Jingnan Liu, 2022. "Factional politics and foreign direct investment in China," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(5), pages 1477-1496, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:29:y:2022:i:5:p:1477-1496
    DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2021.1924832
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09692290.2021.1924832
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09692290.2021.1924832?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:29:y:2022:i:5:p:1477-1496. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rrip20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.