UID:
edocfu_9959226983302883
Format:
1 online resource (416 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-585-10823-4
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0-520-91221-7
Series Statement:
California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy Series ; Volume 24
Content:
In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews with high-level Chinese officials, she pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions and shows how the political logic of Chinese communist institutions shaped those decisions. Combining theoretical ambition with the flavor of on-the-ground policy-making in Beijing, this book is a major contribution to the study of reform in China and other communist countries.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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1. The Political Logic of Economic Reform --
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2. The Prereform Chinese Economy and the Decision to Initiate Market Reforms --
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3. Authority Relations --
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4. Leadership Incentives --
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5. Bargaining Arena --
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6. Who Is Enfranchised in the Policy-making Process? --
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7. Decision Rules --
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8. Chinese Political Institutions and the Path of Economic Reforms --
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9. Playing to the Provinces --
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10. Creating Vested Interests in Reform --
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11. Leadership Succession and Policy Conflict --
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12. Building Bureaucratic Consensus --
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13. The Power of Particularism --
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14. The Political Lessons of Economic Reform in China --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07707-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-07706-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520912212
