The Political Logic of Economic Reform in ChinaIn 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. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
The Political Logic of Economic Reform | 3 |
The Prereform Chinese Economy and the Decision | 23 |
CHINESE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS | 53 |
Political Succession | 70 |
Fiscal Decentralization | 149 |
Industrial | 197 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
According adjustment administrative agencies agricultural allowed approved author's interviews authority bargaining base Beijing benefits build bureau bureaucratic called capital Central Committee Chen China Chinese Chinese economic reform cities collective Commission communist competition conference Congress consensus conservative continued contracting Council created decentralization decision delegation Deng Xiaoping economic reform economists enterprises experiments factories favored firms fiscal fixed foreign funds give groups growth heavy industry implemented important improve incentives income increased institutions interests investment issue leadership less localities managers materials meeting ment method ministries officials organizations output party leaders percent Politburo political position preferences Press price reform problem production profit-contracting profits promoted proposed provinces rates reform policies regions responsibility retained revenues rules secretary sector share shift Soviet Union subordinate succession tax-for-profit tion yuan Zhao Ziyang
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China Volume 24 of California series on social choice and political economy, ISSN 1051-032X Volume 24 of Studies on the History of Soci Volume 24 of Studies on the History of Society and Culture |
| Authors | Susan L. Shirk, Director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Susan L Shirk |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0520077067, 9780520077065 |
| Length | 399 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / General History / Asia / China Political Science / Comparative Politics Political Science / General Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |