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Legitimacy and institutional change: the case of China

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What explains the nature of institutional change in post-1989 China? Dominant theories of institutional change focus on economic-rationalist, sociopolitical, or historical causes. Yet they have trouble explaining the pattern of institutional change in China. An alternative legitimacy-based perspective is proposed here that provides a more parsimonious and general theory of institutional change for China and potentially for other cases as well.

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Comparative Political Studies

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California : Sage Publications., 2008

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English

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0010-4140

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Vol. 41, No. 3, March. Page 259-284

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Democratization
Legitimacy
Institutional change
Social values
China
Legitimacy and Institutional Change

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