WEEK 10 (April 25, 2016) Tax Reform Required Reading Yingyi Qian, Hehui Jin, and Barry R. Weingast. 2005. “Regional Decentralization and Fiscal Incentives: Federalism, Chinese Style.” Journal of Public Economics 89(9-10): 1719-1742. Hongbin Cai and Daniel Treisman. 2006. “Did Government Decentralization Cause China’s Economic Miracle?” World Politics 58(4): 505-535. Jing Vivian Zhan. 2011. “Explaining Central Intervention in Local Extra-Budgetary Practices in China.” Asian Survey 51(3): 497-519. Suggested Reading Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lű. 2003. Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China. New York: Cambridge University Press, Chapters 1 & 8. (ebook) An Chen. Forthcoming. “How Has the Abolition of Agricultural Taxes Transformed Village Governance in China? Evidence from Agricultural Regions.” The China Quarterly. WEEK 11 (May 2, 2016) The Financial System Required Reading Edward S. Steinfeld. 2002. “Moving beyond Transition in China: Financial Reform and the Political Economy of Declining Growth,” Comparative Politics 34(4): 379-98. Sebastian Heilmann. 2005. “Regulatory Innovation by Leninist Means: Communist Party Supervision in China’s Financial Industry.” The China Quarterly 181: 1-21. Victor Shih. 2007. “Partial Reform Equilibrium, Chinese Style: Political Incentives and Reform Stagnation in Chinese Financial Policies.” Comparative Political Studies 40(10): 1238-1262. . Suggested Reading Nicholas Lardy. 1998. China’s Unfinished Economic Revolution. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, Chapters 2, 3, and 5. Loren Brandt, Hongbin Li, and Joanne K. Roberts. 2005. “Banks and Enterprise Privatization in China.” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 21(2): 524-546.
Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi. 2014. By all Means Necessary: How China Resources Quest is Changing the World. New York: Oxford University Press. WEEK 14 (May 23, 2016) China and Global Governance Required Reading Scott Kennedy. 2005. “China’s Porous Protectionism: The Changing Political Economy of Trade Policy.” Political Science Quarterly 120(3): 407-432. Edward S. Steinfeld. 2010. Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapter 1. David Shambaugh. 2013. China Goes Global: the Partial Power. New York: Oxford University Press, Ch. 4. Suggested Reading Margerat M. Pearson and Gregory Chin. Eds. 2013. Special Issue on “International Political Economy in China: The Global Conversation,” Review of International Political Economy 20(6). WEEK 15 (May 30, 2016) Civil Society Required Reading Teresa Wright. 2010. Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China’s Reform Era. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Chapters 1 and 7. Patricia M. Thornton. 2013. “The Advance of the Party: Transformation or Takeover of Urban Grassroots Society?” The China Quarterly 213: 1-18. Jessica C. Teets. 2013. “Let Many Civil Societies Bloom: The Rise of Consultative Authoritarianism in China,” The China Quarterly 213: 19-38. Suggested Reading Benjamin L. Read. 2008. “Assessing Variation in Civil Society Organizations: China’s Homeowner Associations in Comparative Perspective.” Comparative Political Studies 41(9): 1240-1265. Ching Kwan Lee and You-tien Hsing (eds.). 2009. Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. London and New York: Routledge. Guobing Yang. 2009. The Power of Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. New York: Cambridge University Press
WEEK 16 (June 6, 2016) China’s Dual Transition Required Reading Mary Elizabeth Gallagher. 2002. “Reform and Openness: Why China’s Economic Reform Have Delayed Democracy.” World Politics 54(3): 338-72. An Chen. 2002. “Capitalist Development, Entrepreneurial Class, and Democratization in China,” Political Science Quarterly 117 (3): 401-22. Minxin Pei. 2006. China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, Introduction and Chapter 1. Suggested Reading Kellee Tsai. 2007. Capitalism without Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson. 2010. Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support among China’s Capitalists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. WEEK 17 (June 13, 2016) Debating the China Model Required Reading Jashua Cooper Ramo. 2004. The Beijing Consensus: Notes on the New Physics of Chinese Power. London: Foreign Policy Centre, available at . Wei Pan. 2007.The Chinese Model of Development. London: Foreign Policy Centre, available at . Barry Naughton 2010. “China’s Distinctive System: Can it be a Model for Others?” Journal of Contemporary China 19(65): pp. 437-60. Scott Kennedy. 2010. “The Myth of the Beijing Consensus.” Journal of Contemporary China 19(65): pp. 461-77. Suggested Reading 黃平，崔之元(主編). 2005. 《中國與全球化：華盛頓共識還是北京共識》. 俞可平，黃平，謝曙光，高健(主編). 2006. 《中國模式與 “北京共識” 超越 社會科學文獻出版社.