Political Logic of Economic Reform in China
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20th century chinese policy
A01=Susan L. Shirk
asian history
Author_Susan L. Shirk
authoritarian
beijing
california series on social choice and political economy
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china
chinese communist institutions
chinese history
communism
communist rule
economic market reform
economic policy
economic reform
economic reform policy
economics
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fiscal decentralization
government and governing
leadership
particularism
policy making
political institutions
politics
price reform
profit contracting
reciprocal accountability
reform
soviet union
tax for profit
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- ISBN 9780520077072
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Susan L. Shirk is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China (California, 1982).
