This article examines the theories of institutional transformation from redistribution to markets in China from a new perspective of social integration. It argues that the transition is a process simultaneously involv...This article examines the theories of institutional transformation from redistribution to markets in China from a new perspective of social integration. It argues that the transition is a process simultaneously involves the privatization of property rights, the shift of elite power,and the reorganization of interest groups. The study of China's market transition thereby should focus on three questions: who dominants the property right? Who controls the management? And who gets relatively more interests? The answers to these questions point to the shift of the underlying mechanism of integration, namely the integration of property right relationship, the integration of power and the integration of interests, among which the social relationship integration is pervasive, and crucial to understand the maintaining of social order in the course of China's transition to a market economy.展开更多
文摘This article examines the theories of institutional transformation from redistribution to markets in China from a new perspective of social integration. It argues that the transition is a process simultaneously involves the privatization of property rights, the shift of elite power,and the reorganization of interest groups. The study of China's market transition thereby should focus on three questions: who dominants the property right? Who controls the management? And who gets relatively more interests? The answers to these questions point to the shift of the underlying mechanism of integration, namely the integration of property right relationship, the integration of power and the integration of interests, among which the social relationship integration is pervasive, and crucial to understand the maintaining of social order in the course of China's transition to a market economy.
