Reforms and transformation paths in comparative perspective: challenging comparative views on East European and Chinese reforms

Csanádi, Mária (2005) Reforms and transformation paths in comparative perspective: challenging comparative views on East European and Chinese reforms. Acta Oeconomica, 55 (2). pp. 171-199. ISSN 0001-6373

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Abstract

Reforms, in view of a comparative party-state model, become the instruments of self-reproduction and self-destruction of party-state power. The specific patterns of power distribution imply different development and transformation paths through different instruments of self-reproduction. This approach also points to the structural and dynamic background of the differences in the location, sequence, speed and political conditions of reforms during the operation and transformation of party-states. In view of the model the paper points to the inconsistencies that emerge in the comparative reform literature concerning the evaluation and strategies of reforms disconnected from their systemic-structural context.

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