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

Explaining the Rise of the People's Bank of China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6345347
AutoresStephen Bell (0000-0003-2877-9231, The University of Queensland, autor correspondente), Hui Feng (0000-0001-6275-1553, The University of Queensland, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume62
Fascículo1
Páginas197-215
Data de publicação2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-9248.12005
OpenAlexW1900360589
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências 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

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