Transition from Communism in China: Institutional and Comparative AnalysesEdwin A. Winckler Looks at China's transition in comparison to other transitions from communism, going beyond comparisons of whole countries to comparisons of institutional sectors, and compares differing theoretical approaches to regime type and regime change. Subjects include Leninist adaptability in China and Taiwan, military dimensions of regime transition, economic crisis and market transition in the 1990s, principal-agent analysis of fiscal decentralization, state birth planning, and reconstituting the arts and sciences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Leninist Adaptability in China and Taiwan | 49 |
Military Dimensions of Regime Transition | 81 |
Ideological Struggle over Police Reform 19881993 | 111 |
A PrincipalAgent Analysis of Fiscal Decentralization | 131 |
Economic Crisis and Market Transition in the 1990s | 151 |
Reenforcing State Birth Planning | 181 |
Reconstituting the Arts and Sciences | 205 |
Comparing Asian Transitions from Communism | 231 |
Explaining Leninist Transitions | 259 |
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The Contributors | 345 |
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