Piracy and the State

Martin Dimitrov is Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He has also been a post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University, in the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He received his B.A. in government and French from Franklin and Marshall College and his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2004. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Democracy, Current History, and Twenty-First Century (Ershiyi shiji). He is currently working on a book-length study of the collapse and resilience of communist regimes.

List of tables; List of figures and GIS maps; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Part I. Introduction: 1. Intellectual property and the state; Appendix: sources and methods; 2. Regulating the quality of enforcement; Part II. The Organization of the State: IPR Enforcement Options: 3. Customs: centralization without rationalization; 4. Courts: the emergence of rationalization; 5. Administrative enforcement: the complex state; 6. Criminal enforcement: the failure of coordination; Part III. The State in Action: The Politics of IPR Enforcement in China: 7. Trademarks: capricious enforcement; 8. Copyrights: beyond campaign-style enforcement; 9. Patents: creating rationalized enforcement; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. State capacity and IPR; Glossary of selected Chinese terms; Index.