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China’s Transition and the Limits of the American Constitutional Perspective

The standard frameworks used to evaluate constitutional systems are not well suited to exposing transitional capacity.

The Role of Foreign Investment in China’s Transition

The rate of increase of foreign direct investment (FDI) has slowed and its proportion of totalinvestment in China has declined.

China’s Trapped Transition Reconsidered

A response to the reflections on Minxin Pei's book, China's Trapped Transition.

Is China’s Transition Trapped and What Should the West do about it?

This policy brief attempts to challenge three popular views on China.

Is China Trapped in Transition?

An overview of a range of reflections by leading experts on Minxin Pei's thesis that China's transition has stalled.

The Political Economy of China’s Transition

This policy brief argues that Minxin Pei’s China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy contains a number of useful insights into the political economy of...

China’s Transition: Predatory State or Developmental Autocracy?

China’s economic transition is not ‘trapped’. Instead, China has the capacity to move forward to a more sophisticated and equitable economy.
Far from being paralyzed,...

Traps, Gaps, and Law: Prospects and Challenges for China’s Reforms

It is unwarranted or too early to conclude that China’s transition is ‘trapped’, legally and politically.

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

This brief adopts a neo-institutional approach to derive some generalizations about how China’s policies are enforced, why enforcement remains such a problem, and what foreign...

Recent Policy Changes in China’s Real Estate Sector

The reform of the urban housing system, begun in the late 1980s, has resulted in a general improvement in accommodation for most of the urban population in China.

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