Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-520-21727-0
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 259 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization provided party officials of the localities—counties, townships, and villages—with the incentives to act as entrepreneurs and to promote rural industrialization in many areas of the Chinese countryside. As a result, the corporatism practiced by local officials has become effective enough to challenge the centrality of the national state.

Dealing not only with the political setting of rural industrial development, Oi's original and strongly argued study also makes a broader contribution to conceptualizations of corporatism in political theory. Oi writes provocatively about property rights and principal-agent relationships and shows the complex financial incentives that underpin and strengthen the growth in local state corporatism and shape its evolution. This book will be essential for those interested in Chinese politics, comparative politics, and communist and post-communist systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oi, Jean C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on Measures and Transliteration

1. Institutional Foundations of Chinese  Economic Growth: An Introduction  State and Development  A Problem of Agency  Property Rights and Economic Growth  Local State Corporatism  Institutional Reform, Incentives, and Change  Precis of the Study

2. Reassigning Property Rights over Revenue: Incentives for Rural Industrialization  Dividing Property Rights  Decollectivization and the Loss of Income  Fiscal Reform and Rights to the Residual  Credible Commitment  From Limited Indirect Extractions to Direct Taxation  Fiscal Incentives for Local Development

3. Strategies of Development: Variation and Evolution in Rural Industry  Intervening Incentives  The Character of Rural Industrial Growth in the 1980s  The Logic of Collectively Owned Enterprise Development  Management and Ownership in the 1990s  Changing Ownership Forms in Rural Industry

4. Local State Corporatism: The Organization of Rapid Economic Growth  Maoist Legacy as the Foundation  The Local Corporate State  Adapting Maoist Institutions to Market Production  Adapting Local State Corporatism to Private Enterprise  The Evolution of Local State-Led Development

5. Principals and Agents: Central Regulation or Local Control  Overlapping Lines of Authority  The Corporate Nature of Local Regulation  Local Appropriation of Central Controls

6. From Agents to Principals: Increasing  Resource Endowments and Local Control  Regulation of Extra budgetary Funds  Economic Retrenchment and a Test of Central Control  The Erosion of Credit Controls  Local Corporate Interests and Collusion  Nonbank Sources of Capital  The Limits of Central Control in a Changing Economic Context

7. The Political Basis for Economic Reform: Concluding Reflections  The Security of Property Rights and Economic Growth  The Political Consequences of Economic Reform  Local State Corporatism and Central Control in a Transitional System  Remaining Questions

Appendix A. Research and Documentation  The Interview Sample  The Interview Procedure  Limitations
Appendix B. Changes in China's Fiscal System

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jean C. Oi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government (California, 1989).