Institutional Economics and Central-Local Relations in China: Evolving Research

Zheng, Yongnian

doi:10.1353/chn.2005.0031

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“…Deng insisted that politics had to serve the principle of economic priority. This view of 'economics in command' is without doubt new in modern Chinese history, and its impact on China's internal and external developments cannot be underestimated (Zheng 2005 1979-1990s) drive soon evolved into the Reform and Opening policy. The new directions in policy involved a rapprochement with the USA and the international community as a whole.…”

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English as a Global Language in China

Pan

2015

English Language Education

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English as a Global Language in China

Pan

2015

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“…In addition to political motivation, top-down evaluations also offer direct economic rewards or material punishments to local officials who succeed or fail in achieving or surpassing target performance numbers (Saich, 2001;Whiting, 2001;Zheng, 2005). For example, in February 1995, 40 leading cadres from 13 counties of Shanxi province were punished with temporary pay-cuts and published reprimands for failure to fulfill January's economic targets (Gore, 1999).…”

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Economic Freedom and Political Control in Post-Mao China: A Perspective of Upward Accountability and Asymmetric Decentralization

Chien

2010

Asian Journal of Political Science

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With post-Mao China as a case study, this article aims to examine the political economy of asymmetric decentralization in relation to development at the national, regional (inter-local) and local levels. Economically, sub-national governments have been granted greater autonomy with huge decentralized fiscal and administrative powers and competencies. Politically, however, China is still a state under Communist Party domination. Local officials are not elected locally but are assigned by the party. This phenomenon of 'economic decentralization to the local' along with 'political centralization under the party' is described as 'asymmetric decentralization'. The mechanism behind asymmetric decentralization is upward accountability*the greater the economic growth, the better chances there are for local leaders to receive political promotions, administrative power and many tangible and intangible perks. The article further discusses six Janus-faced consequences of asymmetric decentralization, which can be grouped into three pairs of administrative levels: (1) at the national level*positive for relative national economic stability but negative for uneven development across the country; (2) at the regional (inter-local) level*bad for inter-local fragmentation but good for cross-regional cadre transfer; and (3) at the local level*where local policy innovation is a strength but local unsustainable development is a weakness. These consequences, which look contradictory or incompatible on the surface, can be better understood through the analytic framework of 'asymmetric decentralization with upward accountability'.

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Health Reform and De Facto Federalism in China

Ho¹

2010

China Int. J.

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Institutional Economics and Central-Local Relations in China: Evolving Research

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

English as a Global Language in China

English as a Global Language in China

Economic Freedom and Political Control in Post-Mao China: A Perspective of Upward Accountability and Asymmetric Decentralization

Health Reform and De Facto Federalism in China

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