tailieunhanh - Piracy and the State The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China

It gives me great pleasure to thank the individuals and institutions whose gen- erous support made the writing of this book possible. At Stanford, I especially benefited from the advice of Larry Diamond, Judith Goldstein, Michael McFaul, Jean Oi, and Barry Weingast. I was fortunate to have Jean Oi as my adviser, mentor, and friend. Across the years, Jean has provided exceptional advice, good counsel, and sustained encouragement, along with a perfect sense of when I needed to move faster and when I needed to slow down. I am deeply grateful for her support | PIRACY AND THE STATE The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China MARTIN K. DIMITROV Cambridge g 9780521897310 This page intentionally left blank Piracy and the State The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China China has the highest levels of copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting in the world even though it also provides the highest per capita volume of enforcement. In this original study of intellectual property rights IPR in relation to state capacity Martin K. Dimitrov analyzes this puzzle by offering the first systematic analysis of all IPR enforcement avenues in China across all IPR subtypes. He shows that the extremely high volume of enforcement provided for copyrights and trademarks is unfortunately of a low quality and as such serves only to perpetuate IPR violations. In the area of patents however he finds a low volume of high-quality enforcement. In light of these findings the book develops a theory of state capacity that conceptualizes the Chinese state as simultaneously weak and strong. It also demonstrates that fully rationalized enforcement of domestic and foreign IPR is emerging unevenly and somewhat counterintuitively chiefly in those IPR subtypes that are least subject to domestic or foreign pressure. The book draws on extensive fieldwork in China and five other countries as well as on ten unique IPR enforcement datasets that exploit previously unexplored sources including case files of private investigation firms. Martin K. Dimitrov is Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He has also been a postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He received his . in government and French from Franklin and Marshall College and his . in political science from Stanford University in 2004. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Democracy Current History and Twenty-First Century Ershiyi .