State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are both the economic and political bases of the Chinese Communist Party (the Party) and the Chinese state. The overarching principle of SOE reform is to firmly implement the Party’s leadership and the modern enterprise system. This principle creates a political...

This paper critically examines the political-economic reform programme which New Zealand has undertaken since 1984. Many observers, both in New Zealand and overseas, have argued that all Western countries must eventually follow New Zealand down this neo-liberal reform path. The paper argues...