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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Decentralization is often hailed as a means of improving economic policy because it
improves the flexibility of policy-making. This article explains why arguments in favor of …

Western analysis of contemporary China has habitually measured ongoing events in China
by fashionable ideological standards. During the Cultural Revolution era, there was a …

There is a tendency for research on processes of regional economic integration to be built
on national-based paradigms and levels of analysis. Even those approaches that move …