An Analysis Of The System Of Returning Silver To Silver From The Perspective Of Institutional Change Theory

The bureau morale-preserving silver system is a pioneering invention in Qing dynasty’s institutional history, which is designed and institutionalized by Yong Zheng. Despite the truth that academic studies about this system almost reach maturity, this article attempts to open a fresh new window with a perspective of institutional change theory. In the process of clarifying this institution’s changing history, the author delved deep into its interior to manifest an inspiration for modem institutions’ operation.This article refers to history canons and historic and economic theories, basing on the outlined description of this system’s birth, fiber and changes to assess this system’s results and defects. Exploring the political atmosphere that related to this system’s production and its mutation progress to reveal the profound causes that lead to this end. En fin, we attain a guidance that relevant interest groups and irregular rules could direct official institution.This article’s researching debut starts from the devising category of government administrating management. Basing upon the preliminary thinking, the author will adapt a perspective of institutional change theory for this system. Firstly, the author analyzed political, legal and social milieu that influencing this system’s production. Secondly, the author summarized purposes that this system was enforced at begging, furthermore, argued that the decisive impact that feudal emperor’s power imposed on this system’s enforcement and how traditional bureau organization affected its operation process. Thirdly, according to these analyses, the author traced the fountain of this system’s path dependency, combining path tendency theory we could reconstruct and clarify the path dependency trajectory of this system’s institutional change to attain the fundamental impetus that caused this system’s path dependency and mutation: the lacking of feasible instrument necessary for institution’s operation, institutional reforms are incompatible to organization culture and relevant interest groups affected institution’s fiber.