‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong
This paper evaluates how economic restructuring in Guangdong is entwined with the politicization of state rescaling during and after the global financial crisis of 2008. It shows how a key industrial policy known as ‘double relocation’ generated tensions between the Guangdong government, then led by...
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| description | This paper evaluates how economic restructuring in Guangdong is entwined with the politicization of state rescaling during and after the global financial crisis of 2008. It shows how a key industrial policy known as ‘double relocation’ generated tensions between the Guangdong government, then led by Party Secretary Wang Yang, and the senior echelon of the Communist Party of China in Beijing. The contestations and negotiations that ensued illustrate the dynamic entwinement between state rescaling and institutional path-dependency: the Wang administration launched this industrial policy in spite of potentially destabilizing effects on the prevailing national structure of capital accumulation. This foregrounds, in turn, the constitutive and constraining effects of established, national-level policies on local, territorially-specific restructuring policies. |
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| spelling | nottingham-405742020-05-04T17:41:51Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40574/ ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong Lim, Kean Fan This paper evaluates how economic restructuring in Guangdong is entwined with the politicization of state rescaling during and after the global financial crisis of 2008. It shows how a key industrial policy known as ‘double relocation’ generated tensions between the Guangdong government, then led by Party Secretary Wang Yang, and the senior echelon of the Communist Party of China in Beijing. The contestations and negotiations that ensued illustrate the dynamic entwinement between state rescaling and institutional path-dependency: the Wang administration launched this industrial policy in spite of potentially destabilizing effects on the prevailing national structure of capital accumulation. This foregrounds, in turn, the constitutive and constraining effects of established, national-level policies on local, territorially-specific restructuring policies. Taylor & Francis 2016-03-15 Article PeerReviewed Lim, Kean Fan (2016) ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong. New Political Economy, 21 (4). pp. 414-435. ISSN 1469-9923 State rescaling Guangdong Double relocation Industrial policy Wang Yang Institutional path-dependency http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2016.1153054 doi:10.1080/13563467.2016.1153054 doi:10.1080/13563467.2016.1153054 |
| spellingShingle | State rescaling Guangdong Double relocation Industrial policy Wang Yang Institutional path-dependency Lim, Kean Fan ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong |
| title | ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong |
| title_full | ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong |
| title_fullStr | ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong |
| title_short | ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong |
| title_sort | ‘emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis guangdong |
| topic | State rescaling Guangdong Double relocation Industrial policy Wang Yang Institutional path-dependency |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40574/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40574/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40574/ |