In this analysis of one of the most spectacular breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization provided party officials of the localities - counties, townships, and villages - with the incentives to act as entrepreneurs and to promote rural result, the corporatism practiced by local officials has become effective enough to challenge the centrality of the national state. The study also makes a contribution to conceptualizations of corporatism in political theory.
- ISBN10 0585277559
- ISBN13 9780585277554
- Publish Date December 1999 (first published 17 May 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Language English