Publications
Publications
- 2023
The Party and Firm
By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu
Abstract
This project documents the rise of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on
firms in China over the last decade. We propose novel quantitative measures of Party
influence and present recent trends in those measures. We corroborate qualitative work
and find a sharp increase in Party influence since 2017. Furthermore, we find that influence has been concentrated in state-owned firms. Domestic private and foreign firms
exhibit much lower overall levels of influence, most of which is rhetorical.
Keywords
Business and Government Relations; Economic Systems; Power and Influence; Government Administration; Policy; China
Citation
Mueller, Joris, Jaya Y. Wen, and Cheryl Wu. "The Party and Firm." Working Paper, December 2023.