How Institutions Bounce Back: Untangling Difficult Reforms in China’s State-Owned Sector

• In Event: State-building and Institutional Change in Asia

Brief Overview

Why were perennially entrenched institutions so difficult to be reformed? This paper untangles such mechanisms by showing when and how institutions bounce back, based on China’s “break the three irons” reforms in state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

Author

• Ling Chen, Johns Hopkins University