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@article{ART002995710},
author={Kyungsoo Lee},
title={Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations},
journal={The Journal of Northeast Asia Research},
issn={2005-4432},
year={2023},
volume={38},
number={2},
pages={109-138},
doi={10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004}

TY - JOUR
AU - Kyungsoo Lee
TI - Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations
JO - The Journal of Northeast Asia Research
PY - 2023
VL - 38
IS - 2
PB - The Institute for Northeast Asia Research
SP - 109
EP - 138
SN - 2005-4432
AB - This study aims to investigate the economic role of North Korean local governments, drawing parallels to the local state corporatism and local entrepreneurial state in China, which facilitated rapid economic development during the early stages of reform. It examines and compares the extent and nature of institutionalized decentralization and the resulting incentive structures in China and North Korea and investigates the behavior of North Korean local governments following institutional changes. Like China, North Korea granted autonomous fiscal rights to local governments and allowed sub-national economic units to engage in market-based activities. As a result, local governments and bureaucrats became pivotal economic actors with their own vested interests. However, due to the lack of resources to develop their industrial base, North Korean local governments were compelled to collaborate with private actors, leading to an increase in marketization accompanied by organizational and individual corruption. Without endowing sufficient resources to local governments through further opening and reform, recent attempts to regulate local economic activities have limits given the existing incentive structure.
KW - Local State Corporatism;Local Entrepreneur State;China;North Korea;Decentralization
DO - 10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004
ER -

Kyungsoo Lee. (2023). Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, 38(2), 109-138.

Kyungsoo Lee. 2023, "Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations", The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, vol.38, no.2 pp.109-138. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004

Kyungsoo Lee "Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 38.2 pp.109-138 (2023) : 109.

Kyungsoo Lee. Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations. 2023; 38(2), 109-138. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004

Kyungsoo Lee. "Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 38, no.2 (2023) : 109-138.doi: 10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004

Kyungsoo Lee. Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research, 38(2), 109-138. doi: 10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004

Kyungsoo Lee. Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations. The Journal of Northeast Asia Research. 2023; 38(2) 109-138. doi: 10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004

Kyungsoo Lee. Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations. 2023; 38(2), 109-138. Available from: doi:10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004

Kyungsoo Lee. "Chinese Local Governments’ Economic Role in the Early 1980s and North Korean Local Governments’ Potentials and Limitations" The Journal of Northeast Asia Research 38, no.2 (2023) : 109-138.doi: 10.18013/jnar.2023.38.2.004