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Leveraging Political Potential Energy: Venue Shopping by Foreign Chambers of Commerce in China

SHEN Ming-jie   

  1. School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2020-04-26 Online:2020-07-25 Published:2020-08-13

Abstract: As a micro-mechanism, the political potential energy of China's policy process exists between the giveninstitutional context and the lobbying behavior by foreign chambers of commerce in China. Leveraging on such political potential energy, foreign chambers of commerce conduct “venue shopping”as a lobbying strategy by selecting either host or home country and either vertical or horizontal venue. This paper therefore uses the analytical framework to study thefollowing two typical cases: legislative processes of Labor Contract Law and Foreign Investment Law lobbied by American Chambers of Commerce (AmCham China and AmCham Shanghai) and European Chamber of Commerce in China, respectively. In this regard, the author analyzes types, characteristics and results of venue shopping conducted by the foreign chambers of commerce based on the different political potential energy in those legislative processes, and simultaneously summarizes the possible impacton the state-society relations of host country.

Key words: political potential energy, venue shopping, chamber of commerce, state-society relations, government-business relations

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