Urbanization, Dynamic Mechanism and Institutional Innovation

This book grounds on the factual background of the fully accelerated urbanization and the present international financial crisis and uses theories and methodologies including Institutional Economics to make systematic research on the issue of the government's behavior in Chinese urbanization. On the basis of an overview of main theories of the government's behavior in urbanization, the dissertation explains the urbanization dynamic mechanism, makes empirical analysis on the government's behavior in Chinese urbanization, describes the characteristics and effectiveness of the government's behavior in Chinese urbanization, analyzes the dilemma of the government's behavior in Chinese urbanization with the proposition of "government paradox", and proposes solutions to optimization of the government's behavior in Chinese urbanization and enabling of institutional innovation.

This book innovatively constructs an index system of urbanization dynamic mechanism, and makes statistic analysis and econometric analysis on the government's behavior in urbanization. Helpful exploration of research methods has been made in this dissertation. Instead of simply listing and blaming the "Government Paradox" phenomenon in Chinese urbanization, the author makes relatively comprehensive and in-depth analysis to complement the insufficiency of existing research efforts. However, new "insufficiency" exists in this dissertation. For example, some policy proposals are two general without specific pertinence. Hopefully, the author will make further research efforts on that basis after publication of this book to turn the "insufficiency" into "sufficiency" rather than keeping the "insufficiency" on the shelf.  

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Chapter I Introduction
Section I Background and Significance of the Research
Section II Review on the Current Research on Urbanization and Government's Behavior
Section III Research Method， Research Content and Structural Arrangement
Section IV Possible Innovation and Contributions

Chapter II Reconstruction of the Theories of Urbanization，the Government's Behavior and Its Dynamic Mechanism
Section I Overview of the Urbanization Theory
Section II Overview of Government's Behavior Theory
Section III Government's Behavior and Its Functioning Mechanism During the Urbanization Process
Section IV Dynamic Mechanism for Urbanization and the Reconstruction of Its Analysis Frame
Summary and Revelation

Chapter III Empirical Analysis on the Government's Behavior in Chinese Urbanization
Section I Construction of Chinese Urbanization Dynamic Mechanism Index System
Section II Process of Empirical Analysis on Dynamic Mechanism of Chinese Urbanization Progress Since the Reform and Opening-up
Section III Preliminary Conclusion of the Dynamic Mechanism Case Study in Chinese Urbanization
Summary and Revelation

Chapter IV Great Effectiveness of the Government's Behavior in Chinese Urbanization
Section I Historical Review on the Government's Behavior in Chinese Urbanization Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China
Section II Features of Government's Behavior in Chinese Urbanization
Section III Great Achievements of Government's Behavior in Chinese Urbanization
Summary and Revelation

Chapter V Dilemma of the Government's Behavior in Chinese Urbanization Process: "Government Paradox"
Section I Connotation and Phenomenon of "Government Paradox"
Section II Harm of "Government Paradox"  
Section III New Institutional Economics Interpretation of "Government Paradox"
Summary and Revelation

Chapter VI Optimization of the Government's Behavior in Chinese Urbanization and Institutional Innovation
Section I Referential Significance and Revelation of Government's Behavior in Urbanization Process of Other Countries
Section II Overall Objective and Ideas for Optimization of Government's Behavior
Section III Channel One for Government's Behavior Optimization: Addressing "Government Paradox"一一Institutional Innovation and Government Rebuilding
Section IV Channel Two for Optimizing Government's Behavior: Adjustment to Public Policies of Urbanization Under New Outlook of Development
Summary and Revelation

Chapter VII Conclusion and Issues to Be Probed into
Section I Main Findings of This Dissertation
Section II Issues to Be Probed into
References
Postscript
Appendix