Concurrent users
Unlimited
Authorized users
Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied
Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks
Title
Understanding local agency in China's policy reform / Xiaoye She.
ISBN
9783030762124 (electronic bk.)
3030762122 (electronic bk.)
3030762114
9783030762117
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-76212-4 doi
Call Number
JS7353.A8
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.80951
Summary
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. Xiaoye She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at California State University San Marcos, USA.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Series
Politics and development of contemporary China.
Chapter 1. Social Policy Reform and Local Agency in China
Chapter 2. Authoritarian State, Growth Strategies, and Subnational Welfare Politics
Chapter 3. The Pro-Growth National Reforms: State-led Commodification before 2000s
Chapter 4. The Return of the State? The New Reforms and Changing Local Agency
Chapter 5. Local Agency in Healthcare: Limits of Fragmented Universalism
Chapter 6. Local Agency in Affordable Housing: Asset-Based Welfare or Public Rental?- Chapter 7. Local Agency in Old-Age Care: Articulating State, Society and Family
Chapter 8. State Responsibility or Societal Participation? The Future of Authoritarian Social Policies.
