How Proximate and ‘Meta-Institutional’ Contexts Shape Institutional Change

Explaining the Rise of the People's Bank of China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6345347
AutoresStephen Bell (0000-0003-2877-9231, The University of Queensland, autor de correspondencia), Hui Feng (0000-0001-6275-1553, The University of Queensland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen62
Número1
Páginas197-215
Fecha de publicación2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-9248.12005
OpenAlexW1900360589
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas43

This article charts and explains the rising authority of the People's Bank of China (PBC) within the steep hierarchy of the party state. The PBC's rise is explained by using a version of historical institutionalism which focuses on the dialectical or mutually shaping relationships between agents, institutions and wider contexts over time. Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which wider contexts such as crises, power distributions, ideational agendas and structural economic change shaped institutional change at the PBC. Theoretically, this approach moves beyond treating institutional contexts in an ad hoc manner, as existing theory does, and unifies the treatment of contexts within an agent-centred version of historical institutionalism

China · Dialectic · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Historical institutionalism · Institutional change · Institutional theory · Institutionalism · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies