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This chapter introduces the research puzzle of foreign interest groups that seek to shape policies in China’s top-down system. It maps China’s political environment, Western interest groups, China’s state–society relations, and briefly elaborates on the differences between Chinese and Western interest groups. As more and more Western companies have invested in China’s vast economy, their ambition to actively influence the policies of China’s authoritarian state has also grown. The existing mechanisms for monitoring the activities of Chinese actors proved ill-suited to exert a similar degree of power over the foreign actors entering the system. This chapter concludes by introducing the methodological rationale of the research.
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Weil, S. (2017). Introducing Western Lobbying to China. In: Lobbying and Foreign Interests in Chinese Politics. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55620-2_1
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