Institutions and institutional change in China : premodernity and modernization /

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Main Author: Wang, Fei-Ling
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Series:International political economy series
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Table of Contents:
  • Institutions, Institutional Changes, and Modernization: A Conceptual Framework
  • Modernization: The Arguments
  • An Alternative Analytical Framework
  • Human Needs, Behaviors and Institutions
  • Human Behavior and Human Institutions
  • Three Institutional Domains of Human Behavior
  • Human Groupings and the Unit of Institutional Analysis
  • Institutions and the Issue of Institutional Legitimacy
  • Market, Premodern Social Life, Civil Society, and the State
  • An Institutional Understanding of Modernity and Modernization
  • Modernity: An Institutional Notion
  • The Routes to Modernity
  • The Variety of Modernity
  • The Issue of "Post-Modernity"
  • Timing and Other Remaining Methodological Issues
  • The Issue of Timing in Institutional Analysis
  • Why a State-led Route?
  • Some Remaining Methodological Issues
  • The Indicators: A Theory on Labor Allocation Patterns
  • Labor Allocation Patterns: The Notion
  • The Historical Types of LAP
  • The Traditional LAP
  • The Labor Market
  • Authoritarian State Allocation
  • A Historical Review of the Chinese Domestic Organizational Structure: A Peculiar Premodernity
  • Labor Allocation in China: From Qin to Qing (Third Century BC-Nineteenth Century AD)
  • Family-based LAP
  • Serfdom and Slavery
  • Commercialization, Handicraft Industries and Local Labor Markets
  • The Era of Changes (1840-1949)
  • Labor Market and Some Profound Distortions
  • "Leaping Forward" to the Past (1949-78)
  • Land Reform, Collectivization, and the Communes
  • To Establish the Urban Authoritarian State LAP.