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SCP-affiliated faculty are doing cutting-edge research on a wide range of challenges facing China: fiscal shortfalls and local governance, property rights reform and corporate restructuring, social inequality and mobility, food security, markets, education and poverty alleviation, environmental pollution and public health, and political participation and popular protests. Findings from these and other projects are presented at SCP seminars and conferences, and published as journal articles and books.
- Corporate Restructuring and Governance in China
This collaborative research project, led by Professor Jean Oi, examines restructuring and governance reform in China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs). - Economics and Political Decision-Making in China's Villages
This project examines the effect of different levels and types of economic development on the distribution of power and decision-making in Chinese villages. 
Political Movements in an Authoritarian Hierarchy
Focusing on China in the late 1960s, this project investigates the sources of stability and conflict in authoritarian regimes, especially regimes that have a unitary national government, apply threats and repression to their own officials, and lack an exit option for bureaucrats to move into careers in a separa ...
Social Stratification in China during an Era of Transition
Assesses the impact of the Chinese Revolution and the 1949-79 socialist system on patterns of status inheritance and individual opportunity, and the subsequent impact of post-1980 market reforms on the patterns established in the Mao era.
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