David J Bulman
Biographic Data
| ID | 336351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Bulman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bulman |
| SIGNATURE | BULMAN D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3370-3717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
The outsiders
When fear matters
Invisible China
In 1962, Michael Harrington's The Other America described the challenges facing “invisible” American communities, helping inspire the war on poverty. Explicitly referencing Harrington's work in their title (7), Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell's Invisible China presents a shocking picture of China's rural education crisis, a crisis that remains largely unknown and underappreciated even within China itself. In this eye-opening and important book, Ro…
Picking Losers
Rapid economic growth in China with considerable market intervention has led to renewed interest in the efficacy of industrial policy. Have industrial policies helped Chinese firms overcome market failures and boosted productivity, or have they distorted markets and undermined creative destruction? This paper explores these questions in the specific context of local implementation by studying the targeting of financial favors and the relationship…
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era
Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive, personnel reshuffles, and institutional overhauls seem to mark a turning point in Beijing’s long-running fight against ‘localism’ (difangzhuyi). Yet, key questions remain about the scope and effectiveness of efforts to rein in China’s subnational officials. Has the Xi administration effectively combated localism by appointing more outsiders to provincial leadership teams? Or have strengthened oversight institut…
Loyalists, Localists, and Legibility
Selecting provincial leaders is a fraught task for authoritarian regimes. Although central authorities more readily trust provincial leaders with close ties to the center, such loyalists may lack the local knowledge and connections necessary to govern adeptly. Using an original data set on the tenures and backgrounds of China's provincial party standing committee members, this article explores how Beijing fine-tunes provincial leadership teams to…
Leninism and Local Interests
The practice in Leninist political systems of assigning local leaders concurrent seats on higher-level leadership bodies presents a puzzle. In China, for example, a subset of provincial leaders hold seats in the central Politburo, while some city-level leaders hold seats in provincial party standing committees (PPSCs). While some scholars view these concurrent appointments as a form of top-down control or co-optation, others see these arrangement…
Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth
Is there a ‘middle-income trap’? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels, they may stagnate at some middle-income level; this phenomenon can be thought of as a ‘middle-income trap.’ Defining income levels based on per capita gross do…
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era
Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive, personnel reshuffles, and institutional overhauls seem to mark a turning point in Beijing’s long-running fight against ‘localism’ (difangzhuyi). Yet, key questions remain about the scope and effectiveness of efforts to rein in China’s subnational officials. Has the Xi administration effectively combated localism by appointing more outsiders to provincial leadership teams? Or have strengthened oversight institut…
Loyalists, Localists, and Legibility
Selecting provincial leaders is a fraught task for authoritarian regimes. Although central authorities more readily trust provincial leaders with close ties to the center, such loyalists may lack the local knowledge and connections necessary to govern adeptly. Using an original data set on the tenures and backgrounds of China's provincial party standing committee members, this article explores how Beijing fine-tunes provincial leadership teams to…
Leninism and Local Interests
The practice in Leninist political systems of assigning local leaders concurrent seats on higher-level leadership bodies presents a puzzle. In China, for example, a subset of provincial leaders hold seats in the central Politburo, while some city-level leaders hold seats in provincial party standing committees (PPSCs). While some scholars view these concurrent appointments as a form of top-down control or co-optation, others see these arrangement…
When fear matters
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
The outsiders
Invisible China
In 1962, Michael Harrington's The Other America described the challenges facing “invisible” American communities, helping inspire the war on poverty. Explicitly referencing Harrington's work in their title (7), Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell's Invisible China presents a shocking picture of China's rural education crisis, a crisis that remains largely unknown and underappreciated even within China itself. In this eye-opening and important book, Ro…
Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth
Is there a ‘middle-income trap’? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels, they may stagnate at some middle-income level; this phenomenon can be thought of as a ‘middle-income trap.’ Defining income levels based on per capita gross do…
Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth
Is there a ‘middle-income trap’? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels, they may stagnate at some middle-income level; this phenomenon can be thought of as a ‘middle-income trap.’ Defining income levels based on per capita gross do…
Leninism and Local Interests
The practice in Leninist political systems of assigning local leaders concurrent seats on higher-level leadership bodies presents a puzzle. In China, for example, a subset of provincial leaders hold seats in the central Politburo, while some city-level leaders hold seats in provincial party standing committees (PPSCs). While some scholars view these concurrent appointments as a form of top-down control or co-optation, others see these arrangement…
Loyalists, Localists, and Legibility
Selecting provincial leaders is a fraught task for authoritarian regimes. Although central authorities more readily trust provincial leaders with close ties to the center, such loyalists may lack the local knowledge and connections necessary to govern adeptly. Using an original data set on the tenures and backgrounds of China's provincial party standing committee members, this article explores how Beijing fine-tunes provincial leadership teams to…
Localism in Retreat? Central-Provincial Relations in the Xi Jinping Era
Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive, personnel reshuffles, and institutional overhauls seem to mark a turning point in Beijing’s long-running fight against ‘localism’ (difangzhuyi). Yet, key questions remain about the scope and effectiveness of efforts to rein in China’s subnational officials. Has the Xi administration effectively combated localism by appointing more outsiders to provincial leadership teams? Or have strengthened oversight institut…
Picking Losers
Rapid economic growth in China with considerable market intervention has led to renewed interest in the efficacy of industrial policy. Have industrial policies helped Chinese firms overcome market failures and boosted productivity, or have they distorted markets and undermined creative destruction? This paper explores these questions in the specific context of local implementation by studying the targeting of financial favors and the relationship…
Invisible China
In 1962, Michael Harrington's The Other America described the challenges facing “invisible” American communities, helping inspire the war on poverty. Explicitly referencing Harrington's work in their title (7), Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell's Invisible China presents a shocking picture of China's rural education crisis, a crisis that remains largely unknown and underappreciated even within China itself. In this eye-opening and important book, Ro…
When fear matters
Firm’s Source Country or Project Characteristics? Survey Experiments on Preferences for Chinese Investment in the Global South
Do individuals favor a particular foreign investment project based mainly on the investing company’s source country or the characteristics of the investment project? We know surprisingly little about this question, particularly in the Global South, an increasingly important destination for foreign investment. Employing conjoint analysis and informational text treatments, our pre-registered study investigates how the public assesses Chinese invest…
The outsiders
Economics (7 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · China (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)