China's Economic Development and Democratization
In: The Chinese Trade and Industry Series
In: The Chinese Trade and Industry Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE CHINESE TRANSITION -- 1 Introduction -- China's Economic Reforms and Opening Up -- Scholarship on China's Transformation -- Areas of Analysis, Assumptions and Hypotheses -- Research Methodology and Structure of the Book -- 2 Towards an Institutional Analytic Framework -- Theories of Democratic Transition -- Towards a Framework for the Chinese Transition -- Institutions, Actors, and Institutionalization Processes -- China's Political Institutions and Actors at the Central Level -- Conclusion -- PART II: TRANSITION FROM MAO ZEDONG TO DENG XIAOPING -- 3 Legacies of Mao Zedong: Constraints and Opportunities -- Types of Institutionalization Processes -- Coalition Parliamentary Policy Institutionalization -- From a Type B Process to a Type D Process: CPC-dominated Institutionalization -- From a Type D Process to a Type E Process: Autocratic Institutionalization -- Consequences of the Cultural Revolution -- Conclusion -- 4 Transformation of the Ideological Environment and Deng Xiaoping's Rise -- Ups and Downs of Deng Xiaoping -- Arrest of the Gang of Four -- Theoretical Discussion on the 'Criteria of Truth' -- Significant Changes in the Ideological Environment -- Purge Elements of the Gang of Four from the Party and State Apparatus -- Deng's Contingent of Cadres -- Conclusion -- PART III: POLICY INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN THE POST-MAO ERA -- 5 Institutionalization of Agricultural Reform and Open-door Policy -- Early Consensus on the Economic Reform: a Planned Economy with Supplementary Market -- The Agricultural Reform - Restoring Peasants' Independent Producers -- The Open-door Policy -- Deng's Second Southern Tour - Calling for the Market.