Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy
| Autor: | Meg Rithmire |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
05 social sciences Land law 0211 other engineering and technologies Economic reform 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Political economy 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations Economics Macromanagement 050207 economics Economic system China Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Land policy |
| Zdroj: | Politics & Society. 45:123-153 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7514 0032-3292 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0032329216683167 |
| Popis: | This article critically examines the origins and evolution of China’s unique land institutions and situates land policy in the larger context of China’s reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation—namely, urban/rural dualism, decentralized land ownership, and hierarchical land management—in order to use land as a key instrument of macroeconomic regulation, helping the CCP respond to domestic and international economic trends and manage expansion and contraction. Key episodes of macroeconomic policymaking are analyzed, with the use of local and central documents, to show how the CCP relied on the manipulation and distribution of the national land supply either to stimulate economic growth or to rein in an overheating economy. China’s land institutions, therefore, share “complementarities” with fiscal and financial institutions and benefit powerful political actors while imposing costs on marginal ones. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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