China's regulatory state [[electronic resource] ] : a new strategy for globalization / / Roselyn Hsueh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457867203321
• Autore: Hsueh Roselyn <1977->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-8014-6286-X; 0-8014-6285-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Collana: Cornell studies in political economy
• Disciplina: 337.51
• Soggetti: Industrial policy - China; Trade regulation - China; Free trade - China; Globalization - Economic aspects - China; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Liberalization two-step : understanding state control of the economy -- China's strategy for international integration : the logic of reregulation -- Telecommunications and textiles : two patterns of state control -- Consolidating central control of telecommunications in the pre-WTO era -- State-owned carriers and centrally led reregulation of telecommunications in the WTO era -- Dismantling central control of textiles in the pre-WTO era -- Sector associations and locally led reregulation of textiles in the WTO era -- Deliberate reinforcement in strategic industries -- Decentralized engagement in nonstrategic industries -- China's development model : a new strategy for globalization.
• Sommario/riassunto: Today's China is governed by a new economic model that marks a radical break from the Mao and Deng eras; it departs fundamentally from both the East Asian developmental state and its own Communist past. It has not, however, adopted a liberal economic model. China has retained elements of statist control even though it has liberalized foreign direct investment more than any other developing country in recent years. This mode of global economic integration reveals much ; about China's state capacity and development strategy, which is based on retaining government control over critical sectors while meeting commitments made to the World Trade Organization.In China's Regulatory State, Roselyn Hsueh demonstrates that China only appears to be a more liberal state; even as it introduces competition and devolves economic decisionmaking, the state has selectively imposed new regulations at the sectoral level, asserting and even tightening control over industry and market development, to achieve state goals. By investigating in depth how China implemented its economic policies between 1978 and 2010, Hsueh gives the most complete picture yet of China's regulatory state, particularly as it has shaped the telecommunications and textiles industries.Hsueh contends that a logic of strategic value explains how the state, with its different levels of authority and maze of bureaucracies, interacts with new economic stakeholders to enhance its control in certain economic sectors while relinquishing control in others. Sectoral characteristics determine policy specifics although the organization of institutions and boom-bust cycles influence how the state reformulates old rules and creates new ones to maximize benefits and minimize costs after an initial phase of liberalization. This pathbreaking analysis of state goals, government-business relations, and methods of governance across industries in China also considers Japan's, South Korea's, and Taiwan's manifestly different approaches to globalization.

In the shadow of the gallows [[electronic resource] ] : race, crime, and American civic identity / / Jeannine Marie DeLombard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788670303321
• Autore: DeLombard Jeannine Marie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-89890-X; 0-8122-0633-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (457 p.)
• Collana: Haney Foundation Series
• Disciplina: 810.9/896073
• Soggetti: African Americans in literature - History and criticism; American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; African Americans - Race identity - History; African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History; Crime and race - United States - History; Citizenship - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[381]-431)and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact -- Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self -- Part II -- Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics -- Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America -- Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship -- Chapter 6. Who Ain't a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it ; overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders-even slaves-appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists-most notably, Frederick Douglass-could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.