China's Economic Development and Democratization (The Chinese Economy Series)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780754636205
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Transitional economies; Economic Conditions; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; China; Economic policy; 1976-2000; Democratization; Politics and government
First sentence: This chapter examines the achievements of China's economic reforms and the opening up of its economy to the outside world, reviews scholarship on China's social, economic and political transformations, suggests a need to develop a new analytical framework in order to capture the dynamics of the Chinese transition, outlines assumptions and hypotheses, and lays out the structure of the book.