Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change

ISBN-13: 9780521623223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 370 str.

Susan Whiting

Opis

This book focuses on China's rural industries, offering an innovative, theoretical framework to explain insitutional change. Susan Whiting explores the complex interactions of individuals, institutions, and the broader political economy to examine variation and change in property rights and extractive institutions in China's rural industrial sector. Whiting explains why public ownership predominated during the early years of reform and why privatization is now taking place. This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Chinese economic development, but also of comparative politics and political economy more generally.

Recenzje

'Whiting builds an astonishingly rich and powerful interpretive framework in this study of government and industry in rural East China. Beginning with a solid foundation of personal experience derived from extensive fieldwork, Whiting employs a rigorous comparative research design to analyze the divergent paths of rural industrialization and to explain their political causes and consequences. Her close attention to incentives within the complex Chinese institutional environment pays an unexpected bonanza when she is able to deploy it to explain not just local politics, but interactions between local and central policymakers as well. A work destined to take its place on the short-list of essential works on China in transition.' Barry Naughton, University of California, San Diego

Spis treści

List of maps, figures, and tables; Preface; 1. Explaining institutional change; 2. The Maoist legacy in rural industry; 3. Incentive structures and local cadre behavior; 4. Incentives, constraints, and the evolution of property rights; 5. Statis and change in extractive institutions; 6. Credit allocation and collective organizational structures; 7. The political economy of institutional change; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.