caa a22 4500 605454949 CHVBK 20210128100209.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10602-014-9169-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10602-014-9169-8 Grimmer-Solem Erik Department of History, Wesleyan University, 238 Church Street, 06459, Middletown, CT, USA aut The mature limited access order at the doorstep: Imperial Germany and contemporary China in transition [Elektronische Daten] [Erik Grimmer-Solem] A basic premise of the limited/open access orders framework of North, Wallis, Webb and Weingast is a variant of the Hayek-Friedman hypothesis that economic and political freedom sustain each other. Keys to this framework are the specific "doorstep” conditions that enable a transition from limited to open access, which the authors draw from the historical experience of Britain, France and the United States. This essay analyzes the transition process of Imperial Germany to reveal that maintaining economic competition did not depend on democracy and that the middle classes became stakeholders in authoritarianism. It then explores the specific challenges posed by this large, mature limited access order as it was integrated into an international system sustained by a declining liberal hegemon, Great Britain. The refinements of the framework suggested by the case of Imperial Germany allow for a better understanding of some of the parallel transition processes in present-day China and its evolving relationship to both the United States and the current international order. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Development nationallicence Transition nationallicence Limited/open access order nationallicence Hayek-Friedman hypothesis nationallicence International order nationallicence Germany nationallicence China nationallicence Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-03-01), 103-120 1043-4062 26:1<103 2015 26 10602 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-014-9169-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-014-9169-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Grimmer-Solem Erik Department of History, Wesleyan University, 238 Church Street, 06459, Middletown, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Constitutional Political Economy Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-03-01), 103-120 1043-4062 26:1<103 2015 26 10602