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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786771403321

Titolo

State-society relations and governance in China / / edited by Sujian Guo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9180-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development

Disciplina

809.93358

Soggetti

History

China Politics and government 1949-

China History 1949-

China Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: State-Society Relations; 1 The State, the Poor, and the Dibao; 2 New Economic Elites; 3 Coincidental Unwindings; 4 Chinese Public Policy; 5 Analyzing the Impacts of Civil Society Organizations on China's Political Modernization; 6 Interethnic Competence as an Instrument for a Solid State-Society Relation in Contemporary China; II: Governance; 7 Governance in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective; 8 The Development of Chinese Governance; 9 Temporal, Spatial, and Functional Governance of China's Reform Stability; 10 Stable Governance and Regime Type

11 Governance Experiments12 Governance Challenge for the Chinese Leadership; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

State-Society Relations and Governance in China, a wide-ranging collection of essays written by scholars from both inside and outside China, explores the complexity of the changing state-society relationship and the modes and practices of governance in China by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies.