The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>While it is widely accepted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) occupies a dominant position in the Chinese political system, few studies have demonstrated CCP's dominant position based on rigorous statistical analys...
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| author | Gao, Qihua Huang, Yasheng Sui, Yuze Zheng, Yanchong |
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<jats:p>While it is widely accepted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) occupies a dominant position in the Chinese political system, few studies have demonstrated CCP's dominant position based on rigorous statistical analysis. Our paper presents the first such analysis using an innovative measure of regulatory transparency in the food industry across nearly 300 prefectures in China over 10 years. We show that actions by the CCP, while broadly scoped and not targeting the food industry, significantly improved regulatory transparency in the industry. In sharp contrast, food-industry-specific interventions by the State Council, which exercises direct regulatory supervision of the industry, had no impact on regulatory transparency. These results hold in various specifications and robustness checks. Our research contributes to research in China's political system by empirically and explicitly demonstrating the dominating power of the CCP.</jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1504242023-04-06T03:30:01Z The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry Gao, Qihua Huang, Yasheng Sui, Yuze Zheng, Yanchong Sloan School of Management <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>While it is widely accepted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) occupies a dominant position in the Chinese political system, few studies have demonstrated CCP's dominant position based on rigorous statistical analysis. Our paper presents the first such analysis using an innovative measure of regulatory transparency in the food industry across nearly 300 prefectures in China over 10 years. We show that actions by the CCP, while broadly scoped and not targeting the food industry, significantly improved regulatory transparency in the industry. In sharp contrast, food-industry-specific interventions by the State Council, which exercises direct regulatory supervision of the industry, had no impact on regulatory transparency. These results hold in various specifications and robustness checks. Our research contributes to research in China's political system by empirically and explicitly demonstrating the dominating power of the CCP.</jats:p> 2023-04-05T15:23:39Z 2023-04-05T15:23:39Z 2023-03-03 2023-04-05T15:13:00Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150424 Gao, Qihua, Huang, Yasheng, Sui, Yuze and Zheng, Yanchong. 2023. "The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry." PNAS Nexus, 2 (3). en 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad028 PNAS Nexus Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press (OUP) Oxford University Press |
| spellingShingle | Gao, Qihua Huang, Yasheng Sui, Yuze Zheng, Yanchong The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry |
| title | The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry |
| title_full | The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry |
| title_fullStr | The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry |
| title_short | The Chinese Communist Party and regulatory transparency in China's food industry |
| title_sort | chinese communist party and regulatory transparency in china s food industry |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150424 |
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