China's Economic Development and Democratization

✍ Scribed by Yanlai Wang

• Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'China's Economic Development and Democratization' examines China's transformation from an institutional perspective. It focuses on whether there is any evidence to suggest that China's economic transformation may lead to political change. Students and sc

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE CHINESE TRANSITION
1 Introduction
China's Economic Reforms and Opening Up
Scholarship on China's Transformation
Areas of Analysis, Assumptions and Hypotheses
Research Methodology and Structure of the Book
2 Towards an Institutional Analytic Framework
Theories of Democratic Transition
Towards a Framework for the Chinese Transition
Institutions, Actors, and Institutionalization Processes
China's Political Institutions and Actors at the Central Level
Conclusion
PART II: TRANSITION FROM MAO ZEDONG TO DENG XIAOPING
3 Legacies of Mao Zedong: Constraints and Opportunities
Types of Institutionalization Processes
Coalition Parliamentary Policy Institutionalization
From a Type B Process to a Type D Process: CPC-dominated Institutionalization
From a Type D Process to a Type E Process: Autocratic Institutionalization
Consequences of the Cultural Revolution
Conclusion
4 Transformation of the Ideological Environment and Deng Xiaoping's Rise
Ups and Downs of Deng Xiaoping
Arrest of the Gang of Four
Theoretical Discussion on the 'Criteria of Truth'
Significant Changes in the Ideological Environment
Purge Elements of the Gang of Four from the Party and State Apparatus
Deng's Contingent of Cadres
Conclusion
PART III: POLICY INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN THE POST-MAO ERA
5 Institutionalization of Agricultural Reform and Open-door Policy
Early Consensus on the Economic Reform: a Planned Economy with Supplementary Market
The Agricultural Reform - Restoring Peasants' Independent Producers
The Open-door Policy
Deng's Second Southern Tour - Calling for the Market
Increasing Integration with the World Community
From Economic Reform to Legal Reform
Conclusion
6 Restorations of Private Enterprises and Property Rights
A Tale of Socialism: Eliminating Exploiting Classes and Private Ownership
The Origins of the Rebirth of Private Ownership: Rural and Urban Self-employed Producers and Traders
The Private Sector as a Complement to the Socialist Economy
The Non-state Sector as an Important Component of the Socialist Market Economy
Economic and Political Implications
Conclusion
PART IV: CHANGES IN THE MASS PUBLIC ORIENTATIONS
7 Mass Public Orientations and Implications for Policy Institutionalization
Theories and Practices
The 1990 and 2000 Surveys
Findings of the 2000 Survey
Conclusion: Implications for Policy Institutionalization
PART V: PROSPECTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION
8 Conclusion
Patterns of Change in the Institutional Environments
Patterns of Institutionalization Behavior of the Ruling Elite
Prospects for a Democratic Transition
Cautions
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Documents and Reports
Index