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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782481203321

Autore

Zheng Yongnian

Titolo

De facto federalism in China [[electronic resource] ] : reforms and dynamics of central-local relations / / Zheng Yongnian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-90891-6

9786611908911

981-270-680-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

Series on contemporary China ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

320.451

Soggetti

Federal government - China

State-local relations - China

Decentralization in government - China

China Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-417) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; THE RESEARCH; THE ORGANIZATION; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Approaches to Central-Local Relations in China; THE STRUCTURAL APPROACH; The Totalitarian Model; The Pluralist Model; The Cellular Model; Recent Development of the Structural Approach; THE PROCEDURAL APPROACH; THE CULTURAL APPROACH; SEARCH FOR A NEW PARADIGM; 2. De Facto Federalism: Organizations, Procedures and Norms in China's Central-Local Relations; DE FACTO FEDERALISM AND STRUCTURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS; Defining Federalism: Formal Institutional vs. Behavioral

Inter-governmental Decentralization as a Source of De Facto FederalismDE FACTO FEDERALISM: ORGANIZATIONS, PROCEDURES AND NORMS; COERCION, BARGAINING AND RECIPROCITY: HOW DE FACTO FEDERALISM WORKS; Coercion; Bargaining; Reciprocity; CONCLUSION; 3. Reciprocal Interaction in De Facto Federalism; THE SHADOW OF THE PAST VS. THE SHADOW OF THE FUTURE; THE SHADOW OF THE PAST: CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS UNDER MAO; Economic Decentralization under Mao; Economic Decentralization under Deng; Historical Legacy of



Central-Local Political Relations; RECIPROCITY: CENTER-PROVINCE RELATIONS IN THE REFORM ERA

Reciprocity and Interest RepresentationThe Nomenklatura System; Reciprocity: "Play to the Provinces" and "Play to the Center"; CONCLUSION; 4. Autonomous Development in De Facto Federalism: Jiangsu under Decentralization; ADJUSTING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES; History; Maoist Legacy; Reform: Policy Adjustment and Industrial Expansion; FISCAL REFORMS, CHANGING INVESTMENT PATTERNS AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; Fiscal Reforms and Changing Local Incentives; Incentives for Local Growth and Changes in Investment Patterns; STRUGGLES FOR AN EXPORT-LED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

The Initiation of the Export-Led PolicyProvincial Responses to Central Initiatives; GOVERNMENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND RURAL INDUSTRY; Organizing Markets; CONCLUSION; 5. The Center, Local State and Local Community: Zhejiang under Inter-governmental Decentralization; COMMERCIAL TRADITION AND ITS IMPACT ON MODERN ZHEJIANG; POLICY ADJUSTMENT UNDER INTER-GOVERNMENTAL DECENTRALIZATION; FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION AND CHANGES IN INVESTMENT PATTERNS; THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPORT-LED STRATEGY; STATE SPONSORSHIP AND THE GROWTH OF THE NON-STATE SECTOR; THE WENZHOU MODEL: THE STATE AND THE PRIVATE ECONOMY

Local Communities and the Development of a Private SectorLocal Communities and Market Building; Private Sector and State Priority; CONCLUSION; 6. Coercion and Policy Enforcement: Guangdong under Inter-governmental Recentralization; THE FORMATION OF LOCALISM IN GUANGDONG; Historical Origins of Guangdong Localism; GUANGDONG "LOCALISM" IN THE POST-MAO ERA; GUANGDONG LOCALISM: BEYOND THE BOUNDARY; Bureaucratic Enterprises and Dynamism of Excessive Localism; SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS ON GUANGDONG LOCALISM; THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST GUANGDONG LOCALISM; THE LIMITATIONS OF THE NOMENKLATURA SYSTEM

Li Changchun and Guangdong

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first attempt to conceptualize China's central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, China's central-local relations is increasingly functioning on federalist principles. Federalism as a functioning system in China is under studied. The author defines the political system existing in China as "de facto federalism", and provides a detailed analysis of its sources and dynamics in the book. The system is mainly driven by two related factors - in