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Rural China takes off : institutional foundations of economic reform / Jean C. Oi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520922402
  • 0520922409
  • 0585277559
  • 9780585277554
  • 0520200063
  • 9780520200067
  • 9780520217270
  • 0520217276
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rural China takes off.DDC classification:
  • 330.951/058 21
LOC classification:
  • HC427.92 .O35 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 83.25
  • MH 50020
  • RR 69986
Online resources:
Contents:
Institutional foundations of Chinese economic growth: an introduction -- Reassigning property rights over revenue incentives for rural industrialization -- Strategies of development: variation and evolution in rural industry -- Local state corporatism: the organization of rapid economic growth -- Principals and agents: central regulation or local control -- From agents to principals: increasing resource endowments and local control -- The political basis for economic reform: concluding reflections.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.

Institutional foundations of Chinese economic growth: an introduction -- Reassigning property rights over revenue incentives for rural industrialization -- Strategies of development: variation and evolution in rural industry -- Local state corporatism: the organization of rapid economic growth -- Principals and agents: central regulation or local control -- From agents to principals: increasing resource endowments and local control -- The political basis for economic reform: concluding reflections.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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