ISBN:
9780203836873
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
China Policy Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.0951
Keywords:
Public institutions
;
Public institutions - China
;
Electronic books
;
China Politics and government 2002-
;
China Social conditions 2000-
;
China Economic conditions 2000-
Abstract:
This book examines the role of institutions in China's recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China's rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly how institutions affect changes in particular national and historical settings is less well understood. Unlike existing literature, it offers perspectives from a variety of disciplines - including law, economics, politics, international relations and communication studies - to consider whether institutions form, evolve and change differently according to their historical or cultural environments and if their utilitarian functions can, and should be, observed, identified and measured in different ways. The book discusses China's political and legal institutions; the international institutions with which China engages; institutions promoting science and technology; media companies; and local institutions including the household registration system. It also examines how institutions themselves have been formed, changed and re-formed over recent decades, and suggests theoretical and methodological adjustments in institutional analysis to allow a fuller understanding of the institutional dynamics of China's transformation.
Abstract:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Institutional analysis and China's transformation: Issues and concepts -- 2 China and international institutions -- 3 Institution formation, imitation, and borrowing: Zhongguancun as a case study on mechanisms of institutional change -- 4 Science and technology institutions and performance in China: The semiconductor industry -- 5 Power, rights, and interests: A legal and economic analysis of urban housing demolition and relocation in China -- 6 China's Road to Rechtsstaat: Rule of law, constitutional democracy and institutional change -- 7 China's evolving institutional exclusion: The hukou system and its transformation -- 8 China's changing hukou system: Institutional objectives, formal arrangements, and informal practices -- 9 State capacity, democratic principles, and constitutional order: Modern state-building in post-totalitarian society -- 10 Institutional accumulation and gradual substitution: The dynamics of developmental democracy in China -- 11 Propaganda vs. promotion: The political economy of CCTV -- 12 Village elections and the institutionalization of legitimate authority -- 13 Conclusion: The institutional dynamics of China's transformation: what have we learnt? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Institutional analysis and China's transformation: Issues and concepts; 2 China and international institutions; 3 Institution formation, imitation, and borrowing: Zhongguancun as a case study on mechanisms of institutional change; 4 Science and technology institutions and performance in China: The semiconductor industry; 5 Power, rights, and interests: A legal and economic analysis of urban housing demolition and relocation in China
Description / Table of Contents:
6 China's Road to Rechtsstaat: Rule of law, constitutional democracy and institutional change7 China's evolving institutional exclusion: The hukou system and its transformation; 8 China's changing hukou system: Institutional objectives, formal arrangements, and informal practices; 9 State capacity, democratic principles, and constitutional order: Modern state-building in post-totalitarian society; 10 Institutional accumulation and gradual substitution: The dynamics of developmental democracy in China; 11 Propaganda vs. promotion: The political economy of CCTV
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Village elections and the institutionalization of legitimate authority13 Conclusion: The institutional dynamics of China's transformation: what have we learnt?; Bibliography; Index
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