Search Results - "Landry, Pierre F."

Show Me the Money: Interjurisdiction Political Competition and Fiscal Extraction in China by LÜ, XIAOBO, LANDRY, PIERRE F.

“…We argue that interjurisdiction competition in authoritarian regimes engenders a specific logic for taxation. Promotion-seeking local officials are…”
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How Dynamics of Urbanization Affect Physical and Mental Health in Urban China by Chen, Juan, Chen, Shuo, Landry, Pierre F., Davis, Deborah S.

“…Using a 2011 national survey of urban residents, irrespective of their official hukou status, and the 2000–2009 night-time light data from the Defense…”
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Does Performance Matter? Evaluating Political Selection Along the Chinese Administrative Ladder by Landry, Pierre F., Lü, Xiaobo, Duan, Haiyan

“…Political selection is central to the survival of all regimes. This article evaluates the relative importance of performance and political connection for the…”
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Migration, environmental hazards, and health outcomes in China by Chen, Juan, Chen, Shuo, Landry, Pierre F.

“…China's rapid economic growth has had a serious impact on the environment. Environmental hazards are major sources of health risk factors. The migration of…”
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Public Goods and Regime Support in Urban China by Dickson, Bruce J., Landry, Pierre F., Shen, Mingming, Yan, Jie

“…Why do authoritarian regimes try to improve the quality of their governance? In the absence of democratic institutions to monitor, reward and punish their…”
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Urbanization and Mental Health in China: Linking the 2010 Population Census with a Cross-Sectional Survey by Chen, Juan, Chen, Shuo, Landry, Pierre F

“…Along with the rapid urbanization in China, the state of mental health also receives growing attention. Empirical measures, however, have not been developed to…”
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Does the Communist Party Help Strengthen China's Legal Reforms? by Landry, Pierre F.

“…This article draws on the empirical evidence collected in the 2003/2004 survey on the Institutionalization of Legal Reforms in China (ILRC). It explores how…”
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Elections in Rural China: Competition Without Parties by Landry, Pierre F., Davis, Deborah, Shiru Wang

“…Village elections in China present scholars with the case of a single-party regime that allows voters to reject candidates regularly. Using a micro survey of…”
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Introduction: Markets, Courts and Leninism by Landry, Pierre F., Tong, Yanqi, Mingming, Shen

“…[...]everyday boundaries between mediation and government intervention are blurred, and so are the demarcations between formal and informal channels of…”
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GPS in China Social Surveys: Lessons from the ILRC Survey by Jie, Yan, Landry, Pierre F., Ren, Liying

“…Although the method for constructing population density frames for spatial sampling is still in the early stages of development, this article shows that such a…”
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Reaching Migrants in Survey Research: The Use of the Global Positioning System to Reduce Coverage Bias in China by Landry, Pierre F., Shen, Mingming

“…List-based samples are often biased because of coverage errors. The problem is especially acute in societies where the level of internal migration is high and…”
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The Political Consequences of Economic Shocks: Implications for Political Behavior in Russia by Person, Robert, Landry, Pierre F.

“…This paper evaluates long-term political consequences of severe economic shocks by combining a nationally-representative survey of Russians' political…”
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The Political Management of Mayors in Post-Deng China by Pierre F. Landry

“…This article examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains political control over municipal elites in post-Deng China. First, it analyses the career…”
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Erratum to “Migration, environmental hazards, and health outcomes in China” [Soc Sci Med 80 (2013) 85–95] by Chen, Juan, Chen, Shuo, Landry, Pierre F.

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Controlling decentralization: The Party and local elites in post-Mao Jiangsu (China) by Landry, Pierre F

“…This research analyzes the impact of the decentralization of China's personnel system on the capacity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to maintain…”
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Controlling decentralization: The Party and local elites in post -Mao Jiangsu by Landry, Pierre F

“…This research analyzes the impact of the decentralization of China's personnel system on the capacity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to maintain…”
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Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era by Chen, Xi

“…Chen reviews Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era by Pierre F. Landry…”
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