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時間的延滞 - 何故中国は臨界点に至っていないか - 深圳における所得不平等と社会的安定性のケーススタディ -
Buing Time - Why China is not yet at the Tipping Point : A case study of income disparity and social stability in Shenzhen
薛, 進軍
XUE, Jinjun
DAY, Stephen
open access
In the wake of systemic transformation across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (1989-91) many people thought that China would be next. To date, however, China is not only still here but it is also enjoying spectacular economic growth. Such growth though is bringing with it a plethora of issues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) needs to tackle. One of the most pressing and potentially destabilising is the well-published growing income disparity. Using a new household survey of Shenzhen we found that the Gini coefficient reached 0.56, the highest level of inequality in urban China. It is this issue that leads us to ask : will these problems push China to the tipping point where a systemic transformation becomes a real possibility ? Drawing upon the disciplines of politics and economics we will address this question via a case study of Shenzhen which was, not only China’s first special economic zone but it also considered to be the most successful reform city. Contrary to what one might expect the inhabitants of Shenzhen, while split into two general camps (those who feel satisfied and those who do not )display characteristics that are (presently at least) compounding a sense of overall stability rather than instability. It is this situation that leads us to a hypothesise that the ruling party has been presented with a lucky-break – what we have termed the “Shenzhen Dream” – that has so far acted as a sort of systemic cushion that is buying time for the CCP. Whether the ruling party is capable of using that time to devise and implement the sorts of public policy that are able to facilitate those dreams, before the factors that are underpinning it collapse, remains to be seen.
名古屋大学大学院経済学研究科
2007-12-25
jpn
departmental bulletin paper
VoR
https://doi.org/10.18999/ecos.55.3.167
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/9599
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/7877
10.18999/ecos.55.3.167
0022-9725
経済科学
55
3
167
179
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/7877/files/xue_day.pdf
application/pdf
1.4 MB
2018-02-19