IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/scotjp/v73y2026i1ne70027.html

Elite Capture or Exclusion? Insights From China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy

Author

Listed:
  • Jie Tang
  • Xia Li
  • Jiakai Zhang

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of political elites in China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) program using data from the 2017 Thousand‐Person Hundred‐Village (TPHV) survey. The findings reveal a negative correlation between a household's political elite status and its registration in TPA. This exclusion is probably not due to ineligibility but rather to a deliberate selection process aimed at limiting elite influence. Additionally, higher‐level government involvement contributes to the lower likelihood of elite household registration. Finally, we find that households with village committee members experience lower TPA registration rates, and economic and educational elites are similarly excluded from the program.

Suggested Citation

  • Jie Tang & Xia Li & Jiakai Zhang, 2026. "Elite Capture or Exclusion? Insights From China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Scottish Economic Society, vol. 73(1), February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scotjp:v:73:y:2026:i:1:n:e70027
    DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.70027
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.70027
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/sjpe.70027?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:scotjp:v:73:y:2026:i:1:n:e70027. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/sesssea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.