Institutions and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

摘要: Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been world’s two fastest growing economies over past decades, their income inequality patterns are very different. In this paper, we take a deep look at political institutions in countries, demonstrating profound differences between these polities influence distributional choices. particular, find elite encourage construction of broader policy-making coalitions, more competitive selection processes, place constraints on executive decision-making than exists by way China. As result, there stronger motivations for Vietnamese leaders to provide equalizing transfers limit growth among provinces. Acknowledgements: Earlier versions paper were presented Legatum Institute London, UCLA Comparative Politics Seminar, UCSD Faculty Seminar. Barbara Geddes, Bruce Gilley, Miriam Golden, Stephan Haggard, Gordon Hanson, Miles Kahler, Borje Ljunggren, Craig McIntosh, Megumi Naoi, Barry Naughton, Dan Posner, Victor Shih, Susan Shirk, Pham Thach, Ngoc Anh Tran, four excellent anonymous reviwers provided valuable advice project. Quinn Dang Lily Phan research assistance. Funding project was Harvard’s Academy Fellowship, Business School’s Division Research Development, World Postdoctoral Fellowship Fairbank Center Chinese Studies. Biographical Notes: Edmund Malesky is an Assistant Professor University San Diego’s Graduate School International Relations Pacific He worked article while Weatherhead Affairs. Regina Abrami senior fellow faculty chair HBS Immersion Experience Program (IXP). addition, she serves committee Harvard University's Studies associate Yu Zheng Political Science Connecticut. University.