Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict Over Land in China (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Hardcover
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Explains how China achieved transformative economic development without secure property rights and regime durability despite conflict.
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Susan H. Whiting is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. Having studied and conducted extensive field and survey research in China since 1985, she is the author of Power and Wealth in Rural China (2001, Chinese translation 2009) plus articles and chapters, co-authored with political scientists, economists, legal scholars, anthropologists, and historians to advance institutional economic theory and explain development.
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