Understanding Local Agency in China’s Policy Reform Paperback / softback
by Xiaoye She
Part of the Politics and Development of Contemporary China series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book challenges the common perception or assumption that greater state intervention and re-centralization will result in convergence towards a more equitable and inclusive growth model in China.
Instead of asking whether local agency matters, this project examines the conditions and latitude of local agency under initial decentralization followed by increasing top-down re-centralization.
The central argument is that in response to common policy directives and pressures from above, disparities in local growth strategies have interacted with political institutions in generating “embedded” sub-national welfare mix models, with varying articulations of state, market, community, and family in Chinese welfare production.
The bottom-up feedback effects from these embedded models have somewhat offset growing top-down pressure for re-centralization, contributing to persistent sub-national variations.
This author contributes to a growing literature of comparative political economythat seeks to examine the political and economic logics of social policy in non-western and authoritarian political systems.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:267 pages, 4 Illustrations, color; 11 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 267 p. 15 illus., 4 illus
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:25/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030762148
Other Formats
- Hardback from £109.99
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:267 pages, 4 Illustrations, color; 11 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 267 p. 15 illus., 4 illus
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:25/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030762148
