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 …

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 …

Central-local relations are a core but problematic issue in China's reform process. The
conventional wisdom is that the economic reforms have considerably weakened control by …

China's economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction.
However, China's institutions look ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer …

This paper studies the relationship between decentralization and the success of reform in
China. We argue that a particular form of decentralization—called market-preserving …

A noted American authority and investigator of China's economy outlines the general
features of the ongoing reorientation of Chinese economic policymaking toward increased …

The study of Chinese political economy has experienced a sea change since the late 1990s;
instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to …

China needs to build upon rather than obliterate the macroregional characteristics and the
inter-regional and international linkages indicated by inherited structures. There is much to …

China's economic success derives from the co-evolution of the political and economic
systems. There is no single 'China model'. Rather, three successive generations of China …

Traditionally, political scientists and economists have seen China as a single entity and
business people have seen China as a single market. This book challenges the notion of a …