Feb 26 2008
China Governance Bibliography
Notes from meetings with Susan:
1. How to engage China literature with the overall comparative literature: what the latter says and how does that apply/relate to the former;
2. Sarat/Scheingold ISBN 9780195141177, 2001:
Globlization, “dis-empowering the state”, the rise of the democratic force, “cause lawyering”
** Decentralized law – multiple sovereign
Critique: post-modern, 1st world perspective, China is an exception or the rule?
3. The 80s and early 90s: Naughton’s book, 84-92 dual track pricing system,
SW: state was strong, economy was going up until 89; After 89, 治理整顿/Ratification(?), fixed the dual track model, surpressed corruption (?)–problem with rentier (“官倒”）behavior.
4. Muller/Seligson, value and democracy (?) Common: value-> democracy, argument: the other direction
5. About Tian An Men: SW party not ready for highlevel power struggle.
6 ** Interesting: the political campaign (regular study) after 89 was a farce. SW: how was 批林批孔？Was there a populous awakening?
7. Dietrich Rueschemeyer “Capitalist Development and Democracy” argues beyond B. Moore. It is no longer bourgeoisie that matters. It is the poor/working class(?)
8. 1994 fiscal reform recentralized. 2002-04 additional centralization. Today: NOTHING decentralized.
9. Challenge to poli sci: “operationalize” (i.e. measurement)
Questions/To followup
Modernization theory (what is it? How does it relate to China)
China econ development:
Capitalism without Democracy: ISBN-13: 978-0801473265, Kellee Tsai
Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 : ISBN-13: 978-0521574624, Naughton
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China, ISBN-13: 978-0813320434, Perry
Student view themselves differently from workers; 1957 workers strike; labor unrest history (?)
Capitalist Development and Democracy, ISBN-13: 978-0226731445 Dietrich Rueschemeyer,Evelyne Huber Stephens
(informative review by Brad Bullock on JSTOR) Conditions right for working class to rise to equal rights/position.
Manufacturing miracles : paths of industrialization in Latin America and East Asia, by Gary Gereffi; Donald L Wyman
Comparing Taiwan and Brazil
Race to the Swift: Woo-Cummings
State and finance in Korea
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: Alexander Gerschenkron
Four countries comparative studies; Timing of development and level of state intervention; Capital accumulation vs. efficiency; Late start=more centralization, coercion, statism, etc.
Bruce Cummings: authoritarian is necessary for dev. Not sure which book.
Stephan Haggard: Pathways from Periphery
Major comparative work of Asian NIC and those in Latin America; Econ development, as well as political economy; Seems to suggest open market model (?)
Robert Wade: Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
Perhaps the most comprehensive argument for statist approach
Johnson’s MITI study: concluding chapter too.
“Vernon’s Product-Cycle Paradigm”: state intervention change cycle; Statist tool; See SW’s book introduction for more references
Neoliberalist/Anti-Statist: Buchanan, Anne Krueger: state in rent-seeking, unproductive activities; See SW’s book introduction for more references