A Phenomenology of Institutions: Relationality and Governance in China and Beyond Contributor(s): Lejano, Raul (Author), Guo, Jia (Author), Lian, Hongping (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138667366 ISBN-13: 9781138667365 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Political Science | World - Asian - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 306.209 |
LCCN: 2018012958 |
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6" W x 9" (0.50 lbs) 150 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
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Publisher Description: To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalgam of socialist, capitalist, corporatist, and pluralist characteristics, China's systems of governance defy classification using extant categories in the institutionalist literature. What, after all, is a socialist market system? A Phenomenology of Institutions begins with the problem of describing emergent institutional phenomena using conventional typologies. Constructing a new descriptive framework for rendering new, hybrid, and flexible institutional designs, Raul Lejano, Jia Guo, Hongping Lian, and Bo Yin propose new descriptors, involving concepts of autopoeisis, textuality, and relationality, that might better describe new and emergent models of governance. The authors illustrate the utility of this framework with a number of case studies, each dealing with a different aspect of Chinese legal and civic institutions and comparing these with 'Western' models. This book will be a valuable resource for institutional scholars in the fields of public policy, political science, organization studies, public administration, and international development, studying new and emergent forms of governance. |