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Dancing with the Devil - The Political Economy of Privatization in China (Hardcover)
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Dancing with the Devil - The Political Economy of Privatization in China (Hardcover)
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From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed
from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy.
This fundamental change took place under the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP), which is ideologically mandated and politically
predisposed to suppress private ownership. In Dancing with the
Devil, Yi-min Lin explains how and why such an ironic and puzzling
reality came about. The central thesis is that private ownership
became a necessary evil for the CCP because the public sector was
increasingly unable to address two essential concerns for regime
survival: employment and revenue. Focusing on political actors as a
major group of change agents, the book examines how their
self-interested behavior led to the decline of public ownership.
Demographics and the state's fiscal system provide the analytical
coordinates for revealing the changing incentives and constraints
faced by political actors and for investigating their responses and
strategies. These factors help explain CCP leaders' initial
decision to allow limited private economic activities at the outset
of reform. They also shed light on the subsequent growth of
opportunism in the behavior of lower level officials, which
undermined the vitality of public enterprises. Furthermore, they
hold a key to understanding the timing of the massive privatization
in the late 1990s, as well as its tempo and spread thereafter.
Dancing with the Devil illustrates how the driving forces developed
and played out in these intertwined episodes of the story. In so
doing, it offers new insights into the mechanisms of China's
economic transformation and enriches theories of institutional
change.
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