The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China: Volume 24

by Susan L. Shirk

Book Overview

In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077075
• ISBN13: 9780520077072
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"