Beschreibung:
This book provides a positive explanation of the reform in China's railway sector between 1978 and the dissolution of the Ministry of Railways. It bridges the socialist reform and transport policy literature, and studies the empirical changes of the property rights arrangements in China's railway system. Refuting the convergence theory, it concludes that the cyclical reform policies of decentralization and re-centralization were actually an exploratory and interactive mechanism of "assets discovery" and "assets recovery".
1. Property Rights, Ownership Changes and the Puzzles 2. The Best Railway Reform Model 3. China's Railway Reform in Context 4. [De]centralization Policies 5. Great-Leap-Forward Approach of Railway Reform 6. The Railway's Transport Sub-sector: Top down Re-centralization and Local Cadres' Survival Strategies 7. The Railway's Construction Sub-sector: Emergence of Multi-layered State-owned Enterprise Group 8. Telecommunications Sub-sector 9. Conclusions