Government & Market in China

A Local Perspective

af Jian Zhang

This book examines the key role played by local governments in China''s market-oriented economic reform process since 1978. In particular, it addresses the much debated questions of why Communist Party officials at the local level embraced market reform despite its potentially detrimental effects on their power, and how the choices they made have shaped institutional changes and the pattern of development in the economies under their jurisdiction. In contrast to most recent studies of local gove... (Læs mere)