Entangled Elites: Business Ties and Wealth Defense in Authoritarian Regimes

• In Event: JSS 3
  In JSS Session: Emerging Scholars of Communism and Post-Communism

Brief Overview

Networks of China's wealthiest business elites are complied and analyzed to explain wealth defense. Dense business ties with fellow elites rather than access to political power are found to explain resilience under political uncertainty.

Author

• Yan Xu, University of Chicago