How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reform Book

	Preface
1	Economic Reform without Political Reform	1
2	The Pre-reform System
	The Closed Command Economy	8
3	China's Political Institutions	12
	Who's in Charge? The Communist Party and the Government	13
	Reciprocal Accountability and Leadership Competition	17
	The Policy Process: Delegation by Consensus	19
	The Chinese Version of Communist Institutions	22
4	Patterns in Reform Policies	27
	Gradualism	27
	Administrative Decentralization	30
	Particularistic Contracting	32
5	Foreign Economic Reform Policies	34
	Regional Policies toward Foreign Investment	34
	The Decentralization of Foreign Trade Authority	44
6	Opening the Door Wider	55
	Reforming the Foreign Exchange Regime	56
	Opening the Domestic Market	67
7	The Political Challenge of Deeper Integration	76
	Intellectual Property Rights	79
	Environmental Protection	81
	Labor Standards	83
	Difficulties of Deep Integration	85
	Appendix	87
	Comments	91
	References	111
	Index	115