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Disaggregating China, Inc. : State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order / Yeling Tan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Political EconomyPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 3 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings, 20 chartsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501759635
  • 9781501759659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 382/.920951 23
LOC classification:
  • HC427.95 .T36273 2021
  • HC427.95
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Integrating China into the Liberal International Order -- 1. China’s WTO Challenge -- 2. A Theory of State Strategies under Global Rules -- 3. The Hierarchical Politics of WTO Entry -- 4. Explaining the Rise of State Capitalism -- 5. FDI and the Quest for National Champions -- Conclusion: Reassessing China in the WTO Era -- A. Appendix to Chapter 3 -- B. Appendix to Chapter 4 -- List of Interviews -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Set in the aftermath of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, Disaggregating China, Inc. questions the extent to which the liberal internationalist promise of membership has been fulfilled in China. Yeling Tan unpacks the policies that various Chinese government actors adopted in response to WTO rules, and shows that rather than disciplining the state, WTO entry provoked a divergence of policy responses across different parts of the complex party-state. Tan argues that these responses draw from three competing strategies of economic governance: market-substituting (directive), market-shaping (developmental), and market-enhancing (regulatory). She uses innovative web-scraping techniques to assemble an original dataset of over 43,000 Chinese industry regulations, identifying policies associated with each strategy. Combining textual analysis with industry data, in-depth case studies and field interviews with industry representatives and government officials, Tan demonstrates that different Chinese state actors adopted different logics of adjustment to respond to the common shock of WTO accession. This policy divergence originated from a combination of international and domestic forces.Disaggregating China, Inc. breaks open the black box of the Chinese state, explaining why WTO rules, usually thought to commit states to international norms, instead provoked responses that the architects of those rules neither expected nor wanted.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Integrating China into the Liberal International Order -- 1. China’s WTO Challenge -- 2. A Theory of State Strategies under Global Rules -- 3. The Hierarchical Politics of WTO Entry -- 4. Explaining the Rise of State Capitalism -- 5. FDI and the Quest for National Champions -- Conclusion: Reassessing China in the WTO Era -- A. Appendix to Chapter 3 -- B. Appendix to Chapter 4 -- List of Interviews -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Set in the aftermath of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, Disaggregating China, Inc. questions the extent to which the liberal internationalist promise of membership has been fulfilled in China. Yeling Tan unpacks the policies that various Chinese government actors adopted in response to WTO rules, and shows that rather than disciplining the state, WTO entry provoked a divergence of policy responses across different parts of the complex party-state. Tan argues that these responses draw from three competing strategies of economic governance: market-substituting (directive), market-shaping (developmental), and market-enhancing (regulatory). She uses innovative web-scraping techniques to assemble an original dataset of over 43,000 Chinese industry regulations, identifying policies associated with each strategy. Combining textual analysis with industry data, in-depth case studies and field interviews with industry representatives and government officials, Tan demonstrates that different Chinese state actors adopted different logics of adjustment to respond to the common shock of WTO accession. This policy divergence originated from a combination of international and domestic forces.Disaggregating China, Inc. breaks open the black box of the Chinese state, explaining why WTO rules, usually thought to commit states to international norms, instead provoked responses that the architects of those rules neither expected nor wanted.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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