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"RETHINKING CHINA’S COLLAPSE: LAND, DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CREDIBILITY"

Coordinatore	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Netherlands [NL]
Totale costo	1˙498˙227 €
EC contributo	1˙498˙227 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2011-StG_20101124
Funding Scheme	ERC-SG
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-06-01   -   2017-05-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN  Organization address address: RAPENBURG 70 city: LEIDEN postcode: 2300 RA contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Alex Cognome: Van Der Meer Email: send email Telefono: +31 715272409	NL (LEIDEN)	beneficiary	0.00
2	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT  Organization address address: Stevinweg 1 city: DELFT postcode: 2628 CN contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Theo A. J. Cognome: Toonen Email: send email Telefono: +31 15 27 84933	NL (DELFT)	hostInstitution	1˙498˙227.00
3	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT  Organization address address: Stevinweg 1 city: DELFT postcode: 2628 CN contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Petrus P'ei Sen Cognome: Ho Email: send email Telefono: +31 644964698 Fax: +31 715272939	NL (DELFT)	hostInstitution	1˙498˙227.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Although China has appeared as a globalizing force in every sense, many observers feel that its development might come to a grinding halt or even collapse, because of its lack of political reforms, rising inequality, and rampant corruption. Contradictorily, since the start of the reforms China has exhibited relatively high socio-economic and political stability. The proposed ERC project seeks to go beyond widely accepted dichotomous views on China’s development – be they on an impending 'collapse' or on its booming future. Instead, it will attempt to explain China’s paradoxical development. To meaningfully study the multi-layered, contradictory dimensions of Chinese development, the project makes 2 choices: to study development around one of the means of production – land, and to do so by zooming in on its governing institutional architecture. Unlike the other means of production, capital and labor, which have been largely privatized, land is one of the last vestiges of Chinese communism. As such, it is central to the Chinese leadership’s decisions about the nation’s future. This study will delve into the major issues that affect it – the bubble in urban real estate; landlessness; urban sprawl; rent-seeking; evictions; and ethnic conflict. It is hypothesized that China can maintain overall stability despite the rising conflict and inequality, due to the credibility of its institutions. Credibility was coined in economics and political science, yet, in general has been little researched, let alone, in the case of land-based institutional change. It is exactly for this reason that the ERC project has been proposed. As argued elsewhere, when it comes down to successful institutions it is the level of credibility that matters, not the extent of formality, security or privatization. Credibility is thus the pivotal notion that is closely intertwined with the dynamics of dichotomous development. This ERC project will demonstrate that China is a case in point.'