Policies on municipal actions to promote local competitiveness have typically focused in three areas: i) providing infrastructure (transportation, telecommunications, water & sanitation, etc.); ii) improving public services (education, health, public security, housing, etc.); and iii) reducing...

It's important to explore ways to integrate bus and rail transit by combining both the effects of the built environment and their competition. Using Wuhan city in China as a case study, this study develops gradient boosting decision trees(GBDTs) to examine the threshold range of built...

Autocrats typically seek public support on the basis of economic growth-promotion and redistribution policies, and China is no exception. As important as these factors are for authoritarian resilience, we argue that economic legitimation is a more complex phenomenon than has previously been...