▪ Abstract China's economic growth and transition pose fascinating questions for social
scientists. In the economic realm, proponents of the market-preserving federalism (MPF) …

China's Economic Development and Democratization examines China's transformation from
an institutional perspective. It proposes an analytical framework comprising six macro …

Many scholars attribute China's market reforms and the remarkable economic performance
they have fostered in part to the country's political and fiscal decentralization. Political …

This essay reviews two books that seek to account for China's success in making economic
reforms and sustaining rapid growth. One perspective explains China's reformist approach …

China's remarkable economic success rests on a foundation of political reform providing a
considerable degree of credible commitment to markets. This reform reflects a special type …

This article discusses how two decades of economic reforms have intensified popular unrest
and redefined the composition, interests and political attitudes of China's ever more complex …

Most theories that seek to explain democratization look to changes in the economy as the
precursor to significant political liberalization, locating the main causal factor in either severe …

China's economic success under an authoritarian political system in the past 30 years has
raised a question about whether the China model will replace the Western model of …

China began its transition to a market economy nearly thirty years ago under an
authoritarian and hierarchical political system. Today, after market transition has wrought …

THE ECONOMIC MODERNIZATION DRIVE that China launched at the end of the 1970s
ranks as one of the most dramatic episodes of social and economic transformation in history …