| Understanding Local Agency in China's Policy Reform 2021 Edition Contributor(s): She, Xiaoye (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030762114 ISBN-13: 9783030762117 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Asian - Political Science | Public Policy - General |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.09 lbs) 267 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 economy that seeks to examine the political and economic logics of social policy in non-western and authoritarian political systems. |
