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.
About the Author
Xiaoming Huang is Professor of International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His recent publications include The Rise and Fall of the East Asian Growth System: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth (also published by Routledge).
Author(s): Xiaoming Huang
Series: China Policy Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 269
Contents
List of illustrations vii
Abbreviations ix
Contributors xi
Preface xv
1 Introduction: institutional analysis and China’s transformation – issues and concepts
XIAOMING HUANG 1
2 China and international institutions
HARRY HARDING 25
3 Institution formation, imitation, and borrowing: Zhongguancun as a case study on mechanisms of institutional change
HONG SHENG 36
4 Science and technology institutions and performance in China: the semiconductor industry
KEUN LEE AND RUI WANG 55
5 Power, rights, and interests: a legal and economic analysis of urban housing demolition and relocation in China
YUJUN FENG 78
6 China’s road to Rechtsstaat: rule of law, constitutional democracy and institutional change
WEISEN LI 98
List of illustrations vii
Abbreviations ix
Contributors xi
Preface xv
1 Introduction: institutional analysis and China’s transformation – issues and concepts
XIAOMING HUANG 1
2 China and international institutions
HARRY HARDING 25
3 Institution formation, imitation, and borrowing: Zhongguancun as a case study on mechanisms of institutional change
HONG SHENG 36
4 Science and technology institutions and performance in China: the semiconductor industry
KEUN LEE AND RUI WANG 55
5 Power, rights, and interests: a legal and economic analysis of urban housing demolition and relocation in China
YUJUN FENG 78
6 China’s road to Rechtsstaat: rule of law, constitutional democracy and institutional change
WEISEN LI 98
7 China’s evolving institutional exclusion: the hukou system and its transformation
FEI-LING WANG 110
8 China’s changing hukou system: institutional objectives, formal arrangements, and informal practices
JASON YOUNG 130
9 State capacity, democratic principles, and constitutional order: modern state-building in post-totalitarian society
QIANG LI 152
10 Institutional accumulation and gradual substitution: the dynamics of developmental democracy in China
DINGPING GUO 161
11 Propaganda vs. promotion: the political economy of CCTV
YONG HE 179
12 Village elections and the institutionalization of legitimate authority
C. S. BRYAN HO 197
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
13 Conclusion: the institutional dynamics of China’s transformation – what have we learnt?
XIAOMING HUANG 219
Bibliography 228
Index 253
