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How do market ideas become institutionalized in the world's largest and oldest one-party state? In a new open access article with the journal Environmental Politics, Jesper Svensson and co-authors answers this question.
They show how political entrepreneurs embedded water trading in China by drawing on ideological principles – including politics at the centre, ideological pragmatism, and economic decentralization – to bind market instruments to Party legitimacy. The study also shows that Australian aid programmes played a crucial role in shaping these reforms.
Authors: Jesper Svensson, Yahua Wang, Sicheng Chen, Dustin Garrick, Hang Zheng
