The First Taste of Leviathan: Conflict Legacies and State Building in 1950s China

• In Event: Conflict, State Building, and Revolution

Brief Overview

Do prior conditions of wartime state predation facilitate or diminish efforts at statebuilding under a new regime? Using original data from 1950s China, we argue that wartime predation leads to state evasion, thereby undermining statebuilding.

Authors

• Kevin Wei Luo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• Jingyuan Qian, Boston College