On Shifting Foundations

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State Rescaling, Policy Experimentation and Economic Restructuring in Post-1949 China

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<p>This book introduces readers to the current social and economic state of China since its restructuring in 1949.</p> <ul> <li>Provides insights into the targeted institutional change that is occurring simultaneously across the entire country</li> <li>Presents context-rich accounts of how and why these changes connect to (if not contradict) regulatory logics established during the Mao-era</li> <li>A new analytical framework that explicitly considers the relationship between state rescaling, policy experimentation, and path dependency</li> <li>Prompts readers to think about how experimental initiatives reflect and contribute to the ‘national strategy’ of Chinese development</li> <li>An excellent extension of ongoing theoretical work examining the entwinement of subnational regulatory reconfiguration, place-specific policy experimentation, and the reproduction of national economic advantage</li> </ul>