Meg Rithmire
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meg Rithmire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meg |
| FAMILY NAME | Rithmire |
| SIGNATURE | RITHMIRE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8826-9589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
China’s Perilously Imbalanced Economic Success
China’s contemporary economic trajectory is paradoxical, marked by both extraordinary technological advancement and mounting macroeconomic vulnerabilities. China has achieved global leadership in advanced manufacturing sectors such as electric vehicles and batteries, and continues to innovate in fields like artificial intelligence. But these successes are offset by deepening financial and fiscal constraints, most visible in a real estate crisis, …
The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia
Capitalists in most authoritarian regimes have been described as “cronies” of political elites, but why do some crony relationships produce growth, while others produce stagnation or even destructive economic crisis? And if business actors are “co-opted” by authoritarian regimes, as China’s entrepreneurs have been said to be, what explains why business and the state turn on one another? Precarious Ties offers a novel account of relationships betw…
Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
China's Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Insecurity
Contrary to expectations, economic interdependence has not tempered security conflict between China and the United States. In response to perceived domestic and external threats, the Chinese Communist Party's actions to ensure regime security have generated insecurity in other states, causing them to adopt measures to constrain Chinese firms. Security dilemma dynamics best explain the subsequent reactions from many advanced industrialized countri…
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This article focuses on the importance of domestic political status and specifically business' vulnerability to the state in explaining the dynamics of China's outward investments. I present three types of domestic capital whose economic and political logics differ as they go abroad: tactical capital pursues political power and prestige, competitive capital…
Party-State Capitalism in China
China’s economic model, commonly described as “state capitalist,” is now better characterized as party-state capitalism, in which the political survival of the Communist Party trumps developmental goals. Its tools for managing the economy include not only state ownership and market interventions, but increasing use of party-state power to discipline private capital. China’s entrepreneurs are now expected to adhere to the party line, as are foreig…
The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy
China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization
[T]he plan aims for massive urbanization through the extension of formal permanent residency to current and future migrants in small cities and towns rather than large urban centers
Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management
This article critically examines the origins and evolution of China's unique land institutions and situates land policy in the larger context of China's reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation-namely, urban/rural dualism, decentralized land ownership, and hierarchical land management-in order to use land as a key instrument of macroec…
China's “New Regionalism: Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy
The study of Chinese political economy has experienced a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to examining the origins of local economic variation. This article reviews recent work in the regional political economy of contemporary China. In keeping with a movement in comparative politics toward analyzing subnational politics, the “new regionalists” seek to identify…
China's “New Regionalism: Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy
The study of Chinese political economy has experienced a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to examining the origins of local economic variation. This article reviews recent work in the regional political economy of contemporary China. In keeping with a movement in comparative politics toward analyzing subnational politics, the “new regionalists” seek to identify…
Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management
This article critically examines the origins and evolution of China's unique land institutions and situates land policy in the larger context of China's reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation-namely, urban/rural dualism, decentralized land ownership, and hierarchical land management-in order to use land as a key instrument of macroec…
China's Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Insecurity
Contrary to expectations, economic interdependence has not tempered security conflict between China and the United States. In response to perceived domestic and external threats, the Chinese Communist Party's actions to ensure regime security have generated insecurity in other states, causing them to adopt measures to constrain Chinese firms. Security dilemma dynamics best explain the subsequent reactions from many advanced industrialized countri…
The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This article focuses on the importance of domestic political status and specifically business' vulnerability to the state in explaining the dynamics of China's outward investments. I present three types of domestic capital whose economic and political logics differ as they go abroad: tactical capital pursues political power and prestige, competitive capital…
China's “New Regionalism: Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy
The study of Chinese political economy has experienced a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to examining the origins of local economic variation. This article reviews recent work in the regional political economy of contemporary China. In keeping with a movement in comparative politics toward analyzing subnational politics, the “new regionalists” seek to identify…
China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization
[T]he plan aims for massive urbanization through the extension of formal permanent residency to current and future migrants in small cities and towns rather than large urban centers
Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management
This article critically examines the origins and evolution of China's unique land institutions and situates land policy in the larger context of China's reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation-namely, urban/rural dualism, decentralized land ownership, and hierarchical land management-in order to use land as a key instrument of macroec…
The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy
Party-State Capitalism in China
China’s economic model, commonly described as “state capitalist,” is now better characterized as party-state capitalism, in which the political survival of the Communist Party trumps developmental goals. Its tools for managing the economy include not only state ownership and market interventions, but increasing use of party-state power to discipline private capital. China’s entrepreneurs are now expected to adhere to the party line, as are foreig…
China's Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash: From Interdependence to Insecurity
Contrary to expectations, economic interdependence has not tempered security conflict between China and the United States. In response to perceived domestic and external threats, the Chinese Communist Party's actions to ensure regime security have generated insecurity in other states, causing them to adopt measures to constrain Chinese firms. Security dilemma dynamics best explain the subsequent reactions from many advanced industrialized countri…
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This article focuses on the importance of domestic political status and specifically business' vulnerability to the state in explaining the dynamics of China's outward investments. I present three types of domestic capital whose economic and political logics differ as they go abroad: tactical capital pursues political power and prestige, competitive capital…
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia
Capitalists in most authoritarian regimes have been described as “cronies” of political elites, but why do some crony relationships produce growth, while others produce stagnation or even destructive economic crisis? And if business actors are “co-opted” by authoritarian regimes, as China’s entrepreneurs have been said to be, what explains why business and the state turn on one another? Precarious Ties offers a novel account of relationships betw…
Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
China’s Perilously Imbalanced Economic Success
China’s contemporary economic trajectory is paradoxical, marked by both extraordinary technological advancement and mounting macroeconomic vulnerabilities. China has achieved global leadership in advanced manufacturing sectors such as electric vehicles and batteries, and continues to innovate in fields like artificial intelligence. But these successes are offset by deepening financial and fiscal constraints, most visible in a real estate crisis, …
The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach
China (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economic system (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Market economy (6 works) · Democracy (4 works)