Show me the money: Interjurisdiction political competition and fiscal extraction in China

American Political Science Review

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 706-722

  Lü, Xiaobo ^a   Landry, Pierre F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 84908882206     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055414000252     Document Type: Article

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