The institutional change under lobbying and the distribution of power ¨DThe case analysis on the changes in land ownership system in China in 1978

Shengmin Sun ()
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Shengmin Sun: Center for Economic Research, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, 2008, vol. 3, issue 3, 410-429

Abstract: In this paper, we develop a model of institutional change of land property right in China, which include the influences of lobbying and the political power division in 1978. The model illustrates how extra gains are produced under different institutions and how lobbying and political power division can affect the change. It is clear that the institutional innovation has something to do with the leaders¡¯ legal income, the cost of institutional change and the conversion rate. Given the pattern of leader¡¯s power division, it is the best way for the people in rural areas to change their institutional framework, and it is efficient to mix local and central governmental policies. And lobbying and leading power division can affect the direction and the course of institutional changes that would lead different result among different areas.

Keywords: land ownership system; change of institution; political process; model analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N55 Q15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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