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

Klappentext This study focuses on China's rural industries! offering a theoretical framework to explain institutional change. Zusammenfassung Susan Whiting develops through the case of China's rural industrial sector a theoretical framework to explain institutional change. She explores the complex interactions of individuals! institutions and the broader political economy to explain variation and change in property rights and extractive institutions in rural China. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Whiting, Susan H. Whiting, Susan H. (University of Washington) Whiting
• Assisted by: William Kirby (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2000
• EAN: 9780521623223
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62322-3
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Cambridge Modern China (Hardco; Cambridge Modern China Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; China, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Economy