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Administrative decentralization and predation

Administrative laws

Administrative litigation

Agent-predation: in post-communist systems

Agents: exit options for; monitoring and disciplining ; role in state predation; supervision of cadres and. See also Principal-agent relations

Agricultural Bank of China (ABC)

Agriculture: decollectivization of ; infrastructure deterioration in; oversupply and costs of products; reforms in

AIDS: public health services and

Air pollution: from coal burning

Alford, William

Allocation of resources: economic costs of transition and

Alpermann, Bjorn

Anhui province: authority in

Appointment power: of LPCs

Appointments. See Official appointments

Asset control: exit options and; patronage through; property rights and

Asset management companies (AMCs)

AT&T:joint ISP venture in Shanghai by

Audits: of banks

Authoritarian regimes: economic strategy of; fear of big-bang approach ; one-party system and

Autocracy: developmental; after Mao; socioeconomic change and. See alsoAuthoritarian regimes

Bad loans: village and township finances and

Banking: bail-out package for; crisis in; governance and corruption in; gradualism in; ownership structure in; reform in ; tests of reform measures in ; transforming state-owned banks to commercial banks

Banking Regulatory Commission

Bank loans: audits of

Bank of China (BOC)

Bao Tong

Barriers to entry

Beijing Public Security Bureau: on Internet access

Benefits: unemployment

Big-bang approach; in autocracy ; gradualist approach compared with; regime survival and ; superiority of gradualism

Bonds: for state commercial banks

Borrowing: bribery and; rural

Bosses. See Crime bosses; Political bosses

Bo Yibo

Bribery; for bank loans; mafia states and

Budgets: allocations of

Bureaucracy: banking monopolies and ; corruption and; cost of supporting; courts as; employment by; monitoring of government officials and

Bureaucratization

Bureau of Supervising the Security of Public Information Networks (BSSPIN)

Bush, George W.: countering China’s influence by

Business groups: CCP members placed in; co-optation of private entrepreneurs and

Cadres: incompetence in; lifetime tenure of; management and supervision of; tax and fee collection by; tensions in. See also Officials

Candidates: in village elections

Capacity utilization: duplication and

Capital: acquiring through privatization ; transfer to banks

Capitalists: CCP and

Capital markets: unbalanced structure in

CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

CCP. See Chinese Communist Party

CDIC. See Central Discipline and Inspection Committee

Cell phone network: for Unicorn

Cells: CCP

Center-local authority

Central bank

Central Discipline and Inspection Committee (CDIC)

Central government: authority of; grievance petitioning of; state governments and; unfunded mandates and

Centralization: in CCP leaders; corruption and

Centralized predation

Central Organization Department (COD)

Central Party School (CPS): polls of officials trained at

Central Propaganda Department

Chen Xiwen

Chen Kai

Children. See Education

China: as incapacitated state

China Construction Bank (CCB)

China Mobile

China Netcom; market share of

China Network Communications Group

China Paging

China Railcom

China Satellitecom

China Telecom

China Unicom; foreign investment and IPO in; market share of

Chinese-Chinese-Foreign equity investment model

Chinese Communist Party (CCP): anti-corruption body of; assessment of economic progress; Central Organization Department; co-optation strategy of; corruption in ; decline of communist ideology and; democratization and ; disenchantment with; economic reform and decline of; erosion of mobilization capacity ; expulsion of corrupt officials from; Falun Gong and; grassroots democracy and; incompetent members in; Internet control by; judicial independence and; jurisdictions as fiefdoms of; lack of competition with