Correction: Kellee Tsai's talk on October 9

Monday, October 9, 4:30PM, Tanenbaum 145 (Law School), Capitalism
without Democracy: Politics of Private Sector Development in China
Kellee Tsai, Johns Hopkins University
Popular observers expect that China is developing a capitalist class
that is likely to push for democratic reforms. Tsai's research shows
that although China’s private entrepreneurs are not clamoring for
democracy, they are influencing Chinese politics. In the course of
their day-to-day interactions, entrepreneurs are changing the country’s
formal political institutions in ways that reflect their needs and
interests. While liberal democracies permit many direct forms of
political expression, what China’s entrepreneurs are doing is more
subtle and possibly more politically effective than voting, lobbying,
and protesting. Major reforms in China’s formal institutions have
enhanced the private sector’s political legitimacy and economic
security and yet these institutional reforms have occurred in the
absence of political mobilization on the part of business owners.
CEAS-Lauder Distinguished Lecturer, Issues in Contemporary East Asia
Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by Penn Lauder CIBER and the Lauder Institute