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100			_aZhang, Tinglin _944899
245			_aGovernment fragmentation and economic growth in China’s cities
260			_bSage _c2019
300			_aVol 56, Issue 9, 2019 : (1850-1864 p.)
520			_aThis study examines the effect of metropolitan government fragmentation on urban economic growth in China. Spatially decentralised governance under centralised political control plays an important role in China’s post-reform economic development, although evidence has focused on the growth-inducing effect of political completion at the provincial and cross-city levels. Our study suggests that economic growth increases with the number of urban districts only up to two districts, controlling for the potential endogeneity in the number of urban districts, the proxy of metropolitan government fragmentation. This result, while suggestive and in need of further validation, has important policy implications for the rapid urbanisation in China, where municipal administrative structure design does not seem to factor in the effects of government fragmentation on urban growth. More broadly, evidence from China’s cities contributes to the ongoing evaluation of fragmented metropolitan governance across the world.
650			_aChina _944900
650			_aeconomic growth _944901
700			_aSun, Bindong _942324
700			_aCai, Yinyin _944902
773	0		_011188 _915499 _dsage, 2019. _tUrban studies
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018767076
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