1 THE END OF THE LONG BOOM? A COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM GROWTH IN CHINA Tobias TEN BRINK Jacobs University Bremen t.tenbrink@jacobs-university.de Draft. Paper for „Workshop des Arbeitskreises Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung“, 25./26. November 2016, Ruhr University Bochum Abstract In this article, I offer readers a rough guide to institutional foundations for long-term growth in the People’s Republic of China. The peculiarities of the Chinese system include a selective integration into the world economy, a coordinating role for private-public growth alliances mostly at the local level, strong state permeation in corporate governance and corporate finance, segmented systems of low cost, yet comparably well-educated labor, increasing innovation capacities; and company access to large domestic markets. Mutual complementarities of these features made for an institutional “fit” and helped establishing a relatively stable growth regime in the 2000s. Yet, this variegated state-permeated capitalism is currently confronted with challenges that have to be addressed in order to tackle the question of whether the long boom is about to come to an end.