IN-EAST News
18.06.2015 - 00:00
Government Organization and Decision Making Institutions in China - Yuan Li organized Conference Session at Harvard University
Prof. Yuan Li organized a conference session at the 19th Annual Conference of The International Society for New Institutional Economics, June 18–20, 2015, which was held at Harvard University. | The International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) is a well-known international society which promotes rigorous theoretical and empirical investigation of the nature, behavior, and governance of organizations and institutions using approaches drawn from economics, organization theory, law, political science, and other social sciences. | The Society makes a special effort to encourage participation from scholars from around the world. | From this year on, the name of the society will be changed into The Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE).
The session organized by Prof. Yuan Li was called “Government Organization and Decision Making Institution in China”. This session gathered four high quality papers from scholars based in America, Europe and Asia. All the papers studied how government organization affect policy making in China, but each paper had its own focus. The topics included interest group politics inside one-party system, internal checks and balances among authoritarian leaders, strategic information control, and the successor’s dilemma, all of which were important to understand the complexities of governance and organizations in contemporary China.
The following are the titles of the papers in this session
Title: Logrolling under Fragmented Authoritarianism: Theory and Evidence from China
Mario Gilli (University of Milan-Bicocca)
Yuan Li (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Jiwei Qian (National University of Singapore)
Title: Power Structure and Government Oversizing: Unintended consequences of Checks and Balances in a One-party Regime
Nan Gao (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Pinghan Liang (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Lixin Colin Xu (World Bank)
Title: Information Disclosure and Reforms in Authoritarian Governance
Jidong Chen (Princeton University)
Yiqing Xu (MIT)
Title: Designated Succession: When Does It Work in Authoritarian Regimes?
Yuan Li (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Shu Yu (University of Rochester)
Yongjing Zhang (University of Ottawa)
For a pdf-download of the conference program, please click here: https://www.pheenix.com/auctions/domain_auction.php?domain=isnie.org
(Yuan Li on p. 22)