Law and Politics Acting as Intermediary between the Authoritarian Regime and the Market --- A Study on the Chinese Mechanism.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22243001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Ken 北海道大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (80226505)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKAMIZAWA Osamu 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 教授 (70212016) ; ISHIZUKA Jin 山梨大学, 医学工学総合研究部, 准教授 (00434233) ; SAKAGUCHI Kazushige 大阪大学, 大学院法学研究科, 准教授 (10507156) ; UDAGAWA Yukinori 名古屋大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (80298835) ; CUI Guangri 尚美学園大学, 総合政策学部, 教授 (60360880) ; KAWASHIMA Shin 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (90301861) ; ISHII Tomoaki 明治大学, 商学部, 教授 (90350264)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 権威主義体制 / 市場経済システム / 民主化 / NGO / 市民社会 / 外部不経済 / 社会団体法制 / 中国共産党

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By focusing on the civil society which is being formed between the state and the market, this research has clarified the mechanism that has connected the authoritarian politics and the market economy in China. Private sector organizations have been deliberately placed in a precarious legal status and are only allowed to act voluntarily by chance, which means that the society has been domesticated by the politics. The CCP has infiltrated not only the state and the market, but also the society. As a result, it continues to rule China as if it is capable of covering the whole country.
However, the friction between the political system and the economic system, like worsening environment and labor problems, discrimination, the weak and food safety issues, has caused an increasing external diseconomy. It is urgent to present a valid prescription for this situation. A scenario to resolve the mismatch through the democratization of politics is yet to be found.

Free Research Field

社会科学