China's great economic transformation -- China and development economics -- China in light of the performance of central and east european economies-- A political economy of China's economic transition -- The demographic factor in China's transition -- The Chinese labor market in the reform era...

We explain economic growth by both politics, i.e. government activity including spending as well as regulation, and institutional quality and its interaction with politics. This extends previous work on institution building in transition by looking at its impact and, at the same time,...

Klappentext: Over three decades after the Iranian Revolution reconfigured the strategic landscape in the Middle East, scholars are still trying to decipher its aftereffects. Suzanne Maloney provides the first comprehensive overview of Iran's political economy since the 1979 revolution and offers...