The International Implications of China's Fledgling Regulatory State: From Product Maker to Rule Maker

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes The authors would like to thank Miguel Angel Lopera, Craig Pollack, Chiqui Strada, Almudena Villanueva and John Zysman, as well as the editors and reviewers of New Political Economy, for very helpful comments and suggestions on previous drafts. Research support from the Carnegie Corporation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Instituto de Empresa Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. 1. Giandomenico Majone, ‘From the Positive to the Regulatory State: Causes and Consequences of Changes in the Mode of Governance’, Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 17, No. 2 (1997), pp. 39–167. 2. See Steven Vogel, Freer Markets, More Rules (Cornell University Press, 1996). 3. Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999). 4. See Chalmers A. 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