Qian’s essay, “Institutions and Local Growth Coalitions in China’s Urban Land Reform: The Case of Hangzhou High Technology Zone,” focuses on his study of China’s status as a socialist economy in transition. Qian’s study utilized “institutionalist” and urban growth machine theories to study the collaboration of government-lead programs with local interest groups in development zones. According to Qian’s abstract, “the study concludes that the presence of interest groups and the missing community organizations unique to China give new theoretical implications and that both theories work much better with the economic domain than with the political domain largely due to a lagged political reform.”