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China’s Corporatist State

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Lobbying and Foreign Interests in Chinese Politics

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This chapter discusses China’s corporatist system. It provides insight on the relationship between interest groups and the state, and on the possibility of societal conflict in China’s state–society relations. In the context of conflict, the role of the state is particularly interesting to practitioners and industry because it affects the way policies are influenced. Specifically, Chinese interest groups engage with the Chinese state in a corporatist environment, whereas Western interest groups are able to pursue pluralist avenues of cooperation in China. This argument supports the hypothesis that Western and Chinese interest groups are two different units of analysis whose lobbying tools are completely different.

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Weil, S. (2017). China’s Corporatist State. In: Lobbying and Foreign Interests in Chinese Politics. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55620-2_4

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