{"product_id":"the-political-economy-of-property-rights-institutional-change-and-credibility-in-the-reform-of-centrally-planned-economies-hardback-9780521581011","title":"The Political Economy of Property Rights; Institutional Change and Credibility in the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies (Hardback) 9780521581011","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Political Economy of Property Rights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInstitutional Change and Credibility in the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 1997 investigation of the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid L. Weimer (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521581011, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 April 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.746 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This volume examines why the countries have followed the policy courses that they did.  Weimer describes the basic principles of property rights, in particular, security against appropriation by others, emphasizes the close connection between private property and democracy, and then summarizes the other contributions.  ...a major step toward developing such a full model, as it confronts the modesl with many empirical cases.  We can then see what data and techiniques are most successful in testin the theory.\"    Kenneth Koford, Journal of Comparative Economics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOriginally published in 1997, The Political Economy of Property Rights reports on comparative research into the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China. Two important theoretical questions unify the contributions: what aspects of political systems give credibility to systems of property rights? What can be learned from the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries about the large-scale change of economic institutions? The contributors consider the credibility of property rights as arising from the strategic interaction of political and economic actors, and they apply this perspective and test its implications using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. Overall, the volume demonstrates the value of coordinated cross-national research by area specialists sharing a common focus on questions of political economy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The political economy of property rights David L. Weimer\u003cbr\u003e 2. Credible commitment and property rights: the role of strategic interaction between political and economic actors Daniel Diermeier, Joel Ericson, Timothy Frye, and Steven Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 3. The political commitment to markets and marketization: comment on 'Credible commmitment and property rights' Barry R. Weingast\u003cbr\u003e 4. Political determinants of the success of economic transition Nikolai Mikhailov\u003cbr\u003e 5. Comment on 'Political determinants of the success of economic transition' Adam Przeworski\u003cbr\u003e 6. Russian privatization and the problem of credible commitment Timothy Frye\u003cbr\u003e 7. Three issues of credible commitment and Russian privatization John M. Litwack\u003cbr\u003e 8. Legislative politics and the political economy of property rights in post-Communist Russia Brendan Kiernan and Francis X. Bell\u003cbr\u003e 9. Commitment, coordination, and the demise of the post-Communist parliament in Russia Steven S. Smith\u003cbr\u003e 10. Private firms, city governments, and arbitration: enforcing economic legality in St. Petersburg Jole Meyer Ericson\u003cbr\u003e 11. Comment on 'Private firms, city governments, and arbitration: enforcing economic legality in St. Petersburg' Anthony Jones\u003cbr\u003e 12. Property rights and institutional change in the Czech and Slovac Republics Mariusz Mark Dobek\u003cbr\u003e 13. Comment on 'Property rights and institutional change in the Czech and Slovac Republics' Sharon Wolchik\u003cbr\u003e 14. Institutional structures, labor interests, and evolving privatization bargains in Poland Lorene Allio\u003cbr\u003e 15. Comment on 'Institutional structures, labor interests, and evolving privatization bargains in Poland' Bartlomeij Kaminski\u003cbr\u003e 16. Privatization as institutional change in Hungary László Urbán\u003cbr\u003e 17. Comment on 'Privatization as institutional change in Hungary' Kálmán Mizsei\u003cbr\u003e 18. Marketization and government credibility in Shanghai: federalist and local corporatist explanations Steven Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 19. Federalist and corporatist theories: a comment on an empirical test Victor Nee\u003cbr\u003e 20. Learning about the economy: property rights and the collapse of the East German industrial economy Hannes Wittig\u003cbr\u003e 21. Misinformation, insecure property rights, and the collapse of the East German economy Susanne Lohmann\u003cbr\u003e 22. Post-Communist privatization as a test of theories of institutional change Lorene Allio, Mariusz Mark Dobek, Nikolia Mikhailov, and David L. Weimer\u003cbr\u003e 23. 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