Environmental scholars and specialists from U.S. and China provide insightful comparisons and analyses of environmental protection policy and experience in the U.S. and ChinaOs western regions. A special focus is provided on the lessons of the U.S. experience for environmental protection in ChinaOs western regions, the biological and environmental challenges facing China in the western regions, and responses and strategies China has adopted in coping with them.
Environmental scholars and specialists from U.S. and China provide insightful comparisons and analyses of environmental protection policy and experien...
This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these challenges are impacting domestic Chinese society and its political institutions, and how these institutions are responding in their efforts to address the environmental problems.
This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these ch...
Governance has emerged as a central concept and key word in China's governmental and local policy and practice at different levels. This edited collection combines empirical and normative researches as well as theoretical exploration and case studies on the governance theories and practices in China.
Governance has emerged as a central concept and key word in China's governmental and local policy and practice at different levels. This edited collec...
Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China.
Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between gov...
This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of government and politics in China as well as the conceptual ability to explore the general patterns, impacts, and nature of continuities and changes in Chinese politics.
This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of government and politics in China as well as the conceptual ability to...
We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer "isolated" from the larger disciplines of Political Science and International Relations (IR) but an integral part of them. This book contains theoretically innovative contributions by distinguished political scientists from inside and outside China, who together offer up-to-date overviews of the state of the...
We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in Chin...
Democratic transitions have occurred in many countries in various regions across the globe, such as Southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and these nations have undergone simuntaneously political, economic and social transformations. Yet, the patterns and characteristics of transitions have varied significantly, and different modes of transition have resulted in different outcomes.
This book offers cross-national comparisons of democratic transition since the turn of the twentieth century and asks what makes democracies...
Democratic transitions have occurred in many countries in various regions across the globe, such as Southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, East an...
State-society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world. In China, state-society relations have been changing in the new era of reform and opening, and governance has become a central concern in policy practice and in academia. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, written by scholars from both inside and outside China, the contributors explore the complexity of the changing state-society relationship and the modes and practices...
State-society relations and governance are closely related areas of study and have become important topics in the social sciences in the past decades,...
We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer "isolated" from the larger disciplines of Political Science and International Relations (IR) but an integral part of them. This book contains theoretically innovative contributions by distinguished political scientists from inside and outside China, who together offer up-to-date overviews of the state of the...
We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in Chin...
Michael X. y. Feng Sujian Guo Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
The Political Economy of China s Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a general political background for the socio-economic, fiscal and urban and rural transformation.
The book analyses the economic transformation and addresses the shortcomings of existing interpretations of the "Chinese Miracle" and develops a new multi-dimensional framework. In addition, it shows how the private sector has been developing and what a major role it is playing in pushing forward the overall economic development.
The book also...
The Political Economy of China s Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a ge...
