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Handbook on Local Governance in China
Structures, Variations, and Innovations
9781800883239 Edward Elgar Publishing
Demonstrating the crucial importance of local governance in China’s development and international relations, this topical Handbook combines theoretical approaches with novel methodological tools to understand state-society relations at the local level.
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Demonstrating the crucial importance of local governance in China’s development and international relations, this topical Handbook combines theoretical approaches with novel methodological tools to understand state-society relations at the local level.
The Handbook assesses the formal mechanisms that organize territorial relations and scales of state to reconceptualize the local in China’s sociopolitical history. Addressing the complexity of local governance, it examines both the state and societal actors that are involved in how local policies are designed and implemented. Chapters review the emerging literature on Chinese bureaucracy, central-local relations, administrative hierarchies, functional division of power in local governments, and policy innovation. Looking towards the future of the neoliberal capitalist world order, the Handbook also considers economic governance at the local level in the evolving contexts of digitalization and green transformation, before tackling issues related to social governance including housing policies and public services.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this comprehensive Handbook will be essential to students and scholars of Asian politics, policy, urban studies, and regulation and governance. It will also benefit policymakers across Asia working in governmental regulation and public administration and management.
The Handbook assesses the formal mechanisms that organize territorial relations and scales of state to reconceptualize the local in China’s sociopolitical history. Addressing the complexity of local governance, it examines both the state and societal actors that are involved in how local policies are designed and implemented. Chapters review the emerging literature on Chinese bureaucracy, central-local relations, administrative hierarchies, functional division of power in local governments, and policy innovation. Looking towards the future of the neoliberal capitalist world order, the Handbook also considers economic governance at the local level in the evolving contexts of digitalization and green transformation, before tackling issues related to social governance including housing policies and public services.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this comprehensive Handbook will be essential to students and scholars of Asian politics, policy, urban studies, and regulation and governance. It will also benefit policymakers across Asia working in governmental regulation and public administration and management.
Critical Acclaim
‘”The local” is the venue where interests coalesce and great visions are tested and assessed. The Handbook on Local Governance in China presents the latest state-of-the-art review on this critical subject matter by skilfully marrying the more traditional, structural focus centring on policy processes within the multi-tier party-state apparatus, and the broader sociological and political economy dimensions centring on state-society interactions in a co-governance perspective. The empirical focus on two emerging policy areas –digitalization and green policy – adds caviar to the plate.'
– Linda Chelan Li, City University of Hong Kong
‘This superb, nuanced interdisciplinary volume is packed with hitherto unresearched material, conceptualized and analyzed creatively and knowledgeably. The Handbook uncovers the inner workings of governance, plus societal reaction. Each chapter offers a wealth of new data illuminated by sophisticated interpretation. All scholars of domestic China will find much of value here.’
– Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California Irvine, US
– Linda Chelan Li, City University of Hong Kong
‘This superb, nuanced interdisciplinary volume is packed with hitherto unresearched material, conceptualized and analyzed creatively and knowledgeably. The Handbook uncovers the inner workings of governance, plus societal reaction. Each chapter offers a wealth of new data illuminated by sophisticated interpretation. All scholars of domestic China will find much of value here.’
– Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California Irvine, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Anna L. Ahlers, Björn Alpermann, Daniele Brombal, Carolyn Cartier, Minglu Chen, Juan Chen, Nabo Chen, Ceren Ergenc, Xiang Gao, David S.G. Goodman, Reza Hasmath, Chenyang He, Wanyang Hu, Xian Huang, Philipp C.D. Immel, Kyle A. Jaros, Genia Kostka, Chen Li, Sitao Li, Yiran Li, Frank Lefeng Lin, Ning Liu, Carlos Wing-Hung Lo, Tak-Wing Ngo, Xuefei Ren, Beibei Tang, Jessica C. Teets, Juan Wang, Mark Yaolin Wang, Andrew Wedeman, Natalie W.M. Wong, Keping Wu, Puzhou Wu, Qiang Zha, Zhao Zhang, Xueguang Zhou
