Institutions in Transition Land Ownership, Property Rights and Social Conflict in China

by Ho, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780199280698
• ISBN10: 019928069X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This monograph contributes to the field of institutional change and property rights reform in (former) socialist economies with particular reference to China. Studying institutional change regardless of whether it is focused on transitional or developing economies, may prove most fruitful when focused on its structuring of the means of production - land, labour and capital. This book singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform, China. With its focus on land policy and administration, including all major natural resources such as agricultural land, forest, grassland and wasteland, the book is the first comprehensive review of China's land property rights reform.

Author Biography

Peter Ho is Professor of International Development Studies and concurrent Director of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Groningen.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The credibility of agricultural land tenure or why delibrate institutional ambiguity might work

Why the village has no power: land ownership disputes and customary tenure

Governing China's grasslands: the clash over state and collective property

Contested spaces: forest rights, registration and social conflict

Going, going, gone! A case-study of the wasteland auction policy

Between nationalization and privatization: common property as the third way?

Summary and concluding observations: the national debate on property law

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