APL (Ajiken Power Lunch)

APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) is a lunchtime workshop open to public, including IDE staffs, visiting research fellows, IDEAS students, outside researchers and graduate students. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of any work in progress where we can discuss in either English or Japanese.

Those who would attend a seminar are asked to announce yourself to receptionists on your arrival at the IDE and to obtain APL Organizers' signature on your admission card after the seminar.

October 13, 2015. (Tuesday) 14：30-16：00

Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization C24 Meeting Room 　

China vs. Europe and Japan: a Comparative Institutional Analysis of China’s Institution, Its Origin and Its Evolution

This talk is a brief introduction of my book manuscript. I argue that today’s fundamental institution of China, Regionally Decentralized Authoritarianism (RDA), is unique in the world and is essentially an institutional mixture of imperial China and Soviet system. China has the longest imperial history than other empires in the world history. This is supported by the unique imperial institution of China which is evolved over more than one thousand years. In this talk, I analyze the origin and the evolution of the Chinese institution by comparing with major institutions in Europe and Japan, such as the Roman Empire, the Byzantine, the Russian Empire, etc. I will also discuss institutional obstacles of political reforms towards democracy and constitutionalism in China. This discussion is based on institutional comparative analyses.

Chenggang Xu (Quoin Professor in Economic Development, University of Hong Kong)

Ke DING

English