Policy Dimensions of Progressive Institutional Change: Lessons from China’s Construction of a Socialist Market Economy

Abstract:

Through a comprehensive review of the progressive institutional change (PIC) literature, I first discuss four possible trajectories of PIC by considering the forces of societal reaction that might frame the path, as well as the scale and scope of the changes. Thus, I pose four questions that need to be asked when related policies are formulated for PIC. To illustrate this method, I scrutinize the evidence from the construction of a socialist market economy by the Chinese government since the 1980s and argue that related policies have successfully promoted PIC from three dimensions: (1) curbing potential conflicts with power groups; (2) promoting a sense of awareness among stakeholders; and (3) minimizing disturbances to the community. Actually, the related changes demonstrate a dynamic “displacement process” for PICs. Despite the success of this sociosystem, it is found that the sustaining of PIC which requires policy factors that enhance instrumental efficiency in the Chinese context will serve as a challenge to the Chinese government ahead.     

基于fluent紊流幂律流体偏心环空数值模拟研究

为解决常规钻井水力学公式对偏心流场计算结果与实际有所差别的问题,揭示大位移井偏心环空水力行为规律,基于fluent软件对幂律钻井液偏心环空紊流流动进行了数值模拟研究,分析偏心度、稠度系数、流性指数、屈服值、钻杆与钻头组合对流动规律的影响.结果表明,随偏心度、稠度系数、流性指数、屈服值、钻杆与钻头尺寸比例的增大,环空中宽间隙处的流速、压力逐渐增大,而窄间隙处的流速、压力逐渐减小.     

Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Redevelopment‐induced Displacement of Migrants in Shenzhen,China

Gentrification in China is intertwined with urban redevelopment, which causes the large‐scale displacement of rural–urban migrants from ‘villages in the city’ (ViCs). Because of the informality of ViCs, migrant renters have very insecure tenancy and during redevelopment they are treated as a negligible (‘invisible’) social group. As they are very difficult to locate after displacement, they are also literally invisible to researchers. To make the invisible visible, this study traced a sample of displaced migrants from Huangbeiling village in Shenzhen. The focus was on the displacement process and on identifying the consequences for the displaced. We found various forms of displacement during the redevelopment process. Nearby ViCs were prioritized by displaced migrants to minimize as much utility loss as possible. However, they generally suffer from decreased proximity, increased living costs, and the loss of social networks and job opportunities. Remarkably, some choose to return to the gentrifying village, enduring displacement in situ caused by increasing rents, drastic physical neighbourhood changes and declining liveability, in exchange for retaining their original social and economic networks. Large‐scale urban redevelopment is causing the rapid shrinkage of informal housing. Recognizing and addressing the housing needs of this impoverished social group is a matter of urgency.     

Gentrifier? Who,Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror

Schlichtman and Patch suggest that there is an elephant sitting in the academic corner: while urbanists often use ‘gentrification’ as a pejorative term in formal and informal academic conversation, many urbanists are gentrifiers themselves. Even though urbanists have this firsthand experience with the process, this familiarity makes little impact on scholarly debate. There is, Schlichtman and Patch argue, an artificial distance in accounts of gentrification because researchers have not adequately examined their own relationship to the process. Utilizing a simple diagnostic tool that includes ten common aspects of gentrification, they compose two autoethnographic memoirs to begin this dialogue.     

论述壁面剪应力在提高固井水泥浆顶替效率的研究

固井工程是一项应用工程,是建井过程中的重要环节,它直接影响钻井周期和建井成本,以及油田开发方案的实施。深井、超深井的井下地质条件非常复杂,对固井质量有许多不利的因素,在井下条件确定的情况下,决定性的因素是环空流动的壁面剪应力,它是影响顶替效率的主要因素。     

基于精确模态参数的桥梁损伤识别

利用系统动力参数进行土木工程结构的损伤识别已经成为了一个非常重要的研究领域,因此需要一种利用损伤前后动力参数的变化进行损伤评估和定位的有效方法,系统的动力参数必须尽可能的精确。本文通过有限元方法对一简支梁桥进行动力分析,利用壳单元对桥面进行离散化,通过降低刚度来模拟损伤,进行损伤前后动力参数计算,可以发现损伤前后固有频率的变化。利用位移模态提取的曲率模态进行损伤定位要比位移模态更敏感。     

深基坑中土层锚杆工作性状研究

Rock-Soil Anchorage is an important branch of geotechnical engineering. The basic Theory of stucture which depends on shearing strength of stratum around anchorage,or keeping the stabilisation of excav...     

Wagner’s law versus displacement effect

The public sector has grown dramatically over the past few centuries in many developed countries. In this article, we use wavelet methods to distinguish between two leading explanations for this growth – Wagner’s law and the displacement effect. In doing so, we use the long-term data of 10 OECD countries for a maximum time span of 1800–2009. We find that the validity of Wagner’s law is likely to vary strongly over time for each country. A roughly similar feature in most of the countries is that the law is less valid in the earliest stage of economic development as well as in the advanced stages, with the validity tending to follow an inverted U-shaped pattern with economic development. Further, our results indicate that the long-run growth of government size cannot be adequately explained by Wagner’s law. On the other hand, the displacement effect appears to account for the bulk of the growth in most of the countries.     

REGIONAL TIES AND DISCRIMINATION: POLITICAL CHANGE,ECONOMIC CRISIS,AND JOB DISPLACEMENTS IN SOUTH KOREA, 1997–99

Probing into the incidence of job displacements during the 1997–99 recession period, this study offers theoretically grounded micro‐causal explanations for regional ties and regional discrimination in South Korea. Our statistical analysis reveals the significant impact of a worker's birth region (the basis of regional ties and discrimination) on the layoff process. Native Kyongsang workers are found to have faced higher rates of layoff in Seoul‐Kyongki regional firms than native Jolla workers during the recession period. The Kyongsang–Jolla layoff rate gap is mainly due to differential treatment rather than a difference in observable characteristics. The findings suggest that the problem of regional ties and regional discrimination is more deep‐rooted and widespread in South Korea than previously reported.