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Dancing with the Devil - The Political Economy of Privatization in China (Paperback)
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Dancing with the Devil - The Political Economy of Privatization in China (Paperback)
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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 has been ideologically and politically
predisposed to suppress private ownership. In Dancing with the
Devil, Yi-min Lin explains how and why such a paradoxical reality
came about. He shows 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 major change agents, Lin
examines how their self-interested behavior led to the decline of
public ownership in the context of China's evolving demographics
and fiscal system. The constraints and incentives associated with
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 ballooning opportunism among lower
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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