Explaining Railway Reform in China: A Train of Property Rights Re-Arrangements

ISBN-13: 9780367597948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str.

Linda Tjia Yin-Nor

Opis

This book provides a positive explanation of the reform in China’s railway sector between 1978 and the dissolution of the Ministry of Railways. It bridges the socialist reform and transport policy literature, and studies the empirical changes of the property rights arrangements in China’s railway system. Refuting the convergence theory, it concl

Spis treści

1. Property Rights, Ownership Changes and the Puzzles 2. The Best Railway Reform Model 3. China’s Railway Reform in Context 4. [De]centralization Policies 5. Great-Leap-Forward Approach of Railway Reform 6. The Railway’s Transport Sub-sector: Top down Re-centralization and Local Cadres’ Survival Strategies 7. The Railway’s Construction Sub-sector: Emergence of Multi-layered State-owned Enterprise Group 8. Telecommunications Sub-sector 9. Conclusions

O autorze

Linda Tjia Yin-nor teaches at the Department of Geography of the University of Hong Kong. She is affiliated with the Center for Third Sector Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.