Local governance innovation in China : experimentation, diffusion, and defiance /

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Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
©2015
Description:xvi, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge contemporary China series ; 122
Routledge contemporary China series ; 122.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10134584
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Other authors / contributors:Teets, Jessica C., author, editor.
Hurst, William, 1975- author, editor.
ISBN:9780415747851
0415747856
9781315796819
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Despite a centralized formal structure, Chinese politics and policy-making have long been marked by substantial degrees of regional and local variation and experimentation. These trends have, if anything, intensified as China's reform matures. Though often remarked upon, the precise contours of policy formation, diffusion, and implementation have not previously been systematically described, let alone satisfactorily explained. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores how policies diffuse across China today, the mechanisms through which local governments actually arrive at specific solutions, and the implications for China's political development and stability in the years ahead. The chapters examine how local-level institutions solve governance challenges, such as rural development, enterprise reform, social service provision, and how to deal with poor levels of transparency. Focusing on diverse policy areas that include education spending, state-owned enterprise reform, and house churches, the contributors all address the same overarching question: how do local policymakers innovate in each issue area to address a governance challenges and how, if at all, do these innovations diffuse into national politics. As a study of local governance in China today, this book will appeal to both students and scholars of Chinese politics, comparative politics, governance and development studies, and also to policy-makers interested in authoritarianism and governance"--

MARC

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505 0 |a Introduction : the politics and patterns of policy diffusion in China / Jessica C. Teets and William Hurst -- Diffusion of policy defiance among Chinese local officials / Ciqi Mei and Margaret Pearson -- Grassroots reactions to relocation : the diffusion of compensation strategies / Anna Lora-Wainwright -- Flying land : institutional innovation in land management in contemporary China / Meina Cai -- Policy diffusion in corporate restructuring : case studies of local government interventions / Kun-Chin Lin and Shaofeng Chen -- Grasping the large and releasing the small : a bottom-up perspective on reform in a county-level enterprise / William Hurst -- China's grassroots NGOs and the local state : catalysts for policy entrepreneurship / May Farid -- Public security bureaus' containment strategy toward Protestant House churches / Marie-Eve Reny -- Election reform from the middle and at the margins / John James Kennedy and Dan Chen -- Conclusion : compliance, resistance, innovation and involution : assessing the politics of experimentation and diffusion / William Hurst and Jessica C. Teets. 
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