Extralegal Governance

The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-62214-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

Drawing on insights from sociology and new institutional economics, Extralegal Governance provides the first comprehensive account of China's illegal markets by applying a socio-economic approach. It considers social legitimacy and state repression in examining the nature of illegal markets. It examines how power dynamics and varying levels of punishment shape exchange relationships between buyers and sellers. It identifies context-specific risks and explains how private individuals and organizations address these risks by developing extralegal governance institutions to facilitate social cooperation across various illegal markets. Adopting a multiple-case study design to sample China's illegal markets, this book utilizes four cases - street vending, small-property-rights housing, corrupt exchanges, and online loan sharks - to examine how market participants foster cooperation and social order in illegal markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Peng

Lin, Wanlin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Developing a socio-economic approach for analyzing the social order of illegal markets; 3. Unmasking China's illegal markets: research design and fieldwork; 4. Unlicensed street vending; 5. small-property-right housing market; 6. Corrupt transactions; 7. The illegal online lending market; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Lin, Wanlin
Wanlin Lin is Associate Professor at the School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Her current research applies institutional economics, law and economics, and game theory to study informal property rights, illegal markets, knowledge governance in China, and interactions between formal and informal institutions.

Wang, Peng
Peng Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption and Extralegal Protection (2017). His research interests include organized crime, illegal markets, corruption, economic sociology, bureaucracy, and governance.