State rescaling, policy experimentation and path dependency in post-Mao China: a dynamic analytical framework

Kean Fan Lim

Regional Studies, 2017, vol. 51, issue 10, 1580-1593

Abstract: State rescaling, policy experimentation and path dependency in post-Mao China: a dynamic analytical framework. Regional Studies. This paper evaluates the applicability of the state rescaling framework for framing politico-economic evolution in China. It then presents an analytical framework that examines institutional change as driven by the dynamic entwinement of state rescaling, place-specific policy experimentation and institutional path dependency. The framework problematizes simple ‘transition’ models that portray a mechanistic ‘upward’ or ‘downward’ reconfiguration of regulatory relations after market-like rule was instituted in 1978. It emphasizes, instead, a more established pattern of development marked simultaneously by geographically distinct (and enduring) institutional forms and experimental (and capricious) attempts to transcend them.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2017.1330539

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