China Present System Changes And Regional Differences In Study

This dissertation focuses on the China's present institutional change and its dynamic region's differences, applying to the theoretic analysis of the New Institutional Economics. In my opinion, every institution can be conceived as constraints of free-dimension to the individuals and organizations who seek to make their benefit maximum, thus, any institution can be quantitated with the free-dimension. And all institutional changes are merely the processes of the increasing or decreasing the free-dimension, regardless of radical or gradual changes. Therefore, we can divide the institutional changes into two types that one is positive change, which means institution turns to increase individuals' and organizations' free-dimension, and another is negative one, which means institution changes to decrease individuals' and organizations' free-dimension.In the dissertation, I discuss the relationship between institution's supply and demand. I define government to be a monopolistic supplier of all formal institutions and conceive social individuals and organizations as the demander of institutions. From this, an institutional supply and demand model and a government's institutional supply model are set up. I think that there always exists some inconsistence in free-dimension between government's supply and society's demand, either in gross amount or in structures, because of their inconsistent benefit-function, government's boundary rationality, and the governmental priority in maximizing its political and economic benefit when the government supplies formal institutions. The more centralized the country is, the more obviously this inconsistence occurred.After New China established, under its potential violence, the government had ever supplied a very low free-dimension system to Chinese society, mainly including the system of public-owned property rights over all the society and the highest centralized...