The Political Economy of Property Rights

A 1997 investigation of the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China.

1. The political economy of property rights David L. Weimer; 2. Credible commitment and property rights: the role of strategic interaction between political and economic actors Daniel Diermeier, Joel Ericson, Timothy Frye, and Steven Lewis; 3. The political commitment to markets and marketization: comment on 'Credible commmitment and property rights' Barry R. Weingast; 4. Political determinants of the success of economic transition Nikolai Mikhailov; 5. Comment on 'Political determinants of the success of economic transition' Adam Przeworski; 6. Russian privatization and the problem of credible commitment Timothy Frye; 7. Three issues of credible commitment and Russian privatization John M. Litwack; 8. Legislative politics and the political economy of property rights in post-Communist Russia Brendan Kiernan and Francis X. Bell; 9. Commitment, coordination, and the demise of the post-Communist parliament in Russia Steven S. Smith; 10. Private firms, city governments, and arbitration: enforcing economic legality in St. Petersburg Jole Meyer Ericson; 11. Comment on 'Private firms, city governments, and arbitration: enforcing economic legality in St. Petersburg' Anthony Jones; 12. Property rights and institutional change in the Czech and Slovac Republics Mariusz Mark Dobek; 13. Comment on 'Property rights and institutional change in the Czech and Slovac Republics' Sharon Wolchik; 14. Institutional structures, labor interests, and evolving privatization bargains in Poland Lorene Allio; 15. Comment on 'Institutional structures, labor interests, and evolving privatization bargains in Poland' Bartlomeij Kaminski; 16. Privatization as institutional change in Hungary László Urbán; 17. Comment on 'Privatization as institutional change in Hungary' Kálmán Mizsei; 18. Marketization and government credibility in Shanghai: federalist and local corporatist explanations Steven Lewis; 19. Federalist and corporatist theories: a comment on an empirical test Victor Nee; 20. Learning about the economy: property rights and the collapse of the East German industrial economy Hannes Wittig; 21. Misinformation, insecure property rights, and the collapse of the East German economy Susanne Lohmann; 22. Post-Communist privatization as a test of theories of institutional change Lorene Allio, Mariusz Mark Dobek, Nikolia Mikhailov, and David L. Weimer; 23. Explaining the complexity of institutional change Jack Knight and Douglass C. North.