{"product_id":"the-political-logic-of-economic-susan-l-shirk-9780520077072","title":"The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China: Volume 24","description":"In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews with high-level Chinese officials, she pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions and shows how the political logic of Chinese communist institutions shaped those decisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining theoretical ambition with the flavor of on-the-ground policy-making in Beijing, this book is a major contribution to the study of reform in China and other communist countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan L. Shirk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520077075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520077072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.01w x 0.96d","brand":"Susan L. Shirk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052190912767,"sku":"9780520077072","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d87ae4bc-9058-46fc-b95a-4933c7eaf06e.jpg?v=1723555602","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-political-logic-of-economic-susan-l-shirk-9780520077072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}