2014 43 (1) : 40-44ĭo regime change and market reform disrupt patterns of intergenerational mobility? China's political trajectory is distinctive from that of other communist regimes in two ways. Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China (Book Review) CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY-A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS Book Review Authored by: Walder, A.China’s Evolving Oligarchy Social Stratification: Class, Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective Walder, A.View details for Web of Science ID 000335291000008 The resulting gaps in private wealth were nonetheless small by the standards of established market economies, and despite the inherent biases in the process, housing privatization distributed home equity widely across those who were resident in public housing immediately prior to privatization. Elite occupations had substantially greater wealth in the form of home equity shortly after privatization, due primarily to their prior allocations of newer and higher quality apartments. Access to privatization programs was relatively equal across urban residents in state sector occupations. We estimate the resulting inequalities with data from successive waves of a Chinese national income survey that details household assets and participation in housing programs. Housing privatization is therefore a potentially important avenue for the conversion of bureaucratic privilege into private wealth. In transitions to a market economy, ownership is typically transferred to existing occupants at deeply discounted prices, making home equity the largest component of household wealth. State socialist economies provided public housing to urban citizens at nominal cost, while allocating larger and better quality apartments to individuals in elite occupations. Other recent publications include “Transitions from State Socialism: A Property Rights Perspective” in the Sociology of Economic Life, edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg (Westview Press, 2011) The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, edited with Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz (Stanford University Press, 2006) "Ownership, Organization, and Income Inequality: Market Transition in Rural Vietnam" in the American Sociological Review (2008) "Ambiguity and Choice in Political Movements: The Origins of Beijing Red Guard Factionalism," in the American Journal of Sociology (2006) "From Control to Ownership: China's Managerial Revolution," in Management and Organizations Review (2009) and "Political Sociology and Social Movements," in Annual Review of Sociology (2009). From 1996 to 2006, as a member of the Hong Kong Government's Research Grants Council, he chaired its Panel on the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business Studies. From 1995 to 1997, he headed the Division of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. As a professor of sociology, he served as chair of Harvard's MA Program on Regional Studies-East Asia for several years. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1981 and taught at Columbia University before moving to Harvard in 1987. Walder joined the Stanford faculty the fall of 1997. He is the author of Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (Harvard University Press, 2009), and of the forthcoming China Under Mao (Harvard University Press). His current research focuses on political upheavals during China's Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1971. His research on China has focused on the grass-roots organization of party authority, the political economy of reform, social stratification and mobility, and political conflict from the 1960s to 1980s. A political sociologist, Walder has long specialized in the sources of conflict, stability, and change in communist regimes and their successor states. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, and Director and of the Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He has previously served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, Director of the Walter H. Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor at Stanford University, where he is also a senior fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationĪndrew G.Office of Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer.Office of VP for University Human Resources. Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME).Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
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