This report explains the shifts and strains in the 2008 super-ministry government reform,
focusing on the reform of government institutions of economic governance. Drawing on …

This paper analyses the political logic of China's state institutional reform during the time of
economic globalization. It focuses on the dismemberment of China's top central economic …

China's rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political
development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform. In the post-Mao era …

China's economic reforms succeeded in decentralizing decision making power down to the
local and enterprise level. This decentralization has permitted a vibrant non‐state sector to …

China seems to be a paradox: on the one hand, it has a thriving capitalist economy; on the
other hand, the catalyst behind its phenomenal growth has been none other than the …

On April 26, 2004, the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) convened and
agreed to strengthen macroeconomic contractionary policies dramatically. A blizzard of …

This paper attempts to characterize China's approach to global economic governance
during the Xi Jinping era, and to provide details on how it is playing out. One finding is that …

On the question of state-market relations, the neoclassical economic view regards a minimal
state as essential for economic growth. The statist view in political economy studies, on the …

Tracing the role of ideas in Chinese economic reform from 1978 to the present, this book
explores the conversion of China's policymakers to capitalist economic thinking. Chen …

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has overseen a significant
transformation of China's domestic economic system, undergirded by important new reforms …