Assessing the Balance of Power in CentralLocal Relations in China
How do we understand the evolution of centrallocal relations in China during the reform period? This book addresses this question by focusing on eight separate issues in which the centrallocal relationship has been especially salient government finance, investment control, regional development, administrative zoning, policy implementation, culture, social welfare, and international relations. Each chapter introduces a sector and discusses how the center and various local governments have shared or divided power over the different periods of Chinas reform era. The balance of power is gauged dynamically over time to measure the extent to which one level of government dominates, influences or shares power in making decisions in each of these particular domains, as well as what is likely to occur in the foreseeable future. The authors assess the winners and losers of these changes among key actors in Chinas society. The result provides a dynamic view of Chinas changing power relations.
John A. Donaldson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (SMU). Over the last decade, he has authored and co-authored numerous journal and conference papers as well as other academic publications on issues such as poverty reduction and economic growth in China, the transformation of Chinas agrarian system and centralprovincial relations in China. John A. Donaldson is the author of Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China (Cornell University Press, 2011). His research has also been published in journals such as World Development, International Studies Quarterly, Politics and Society, China Journal, China Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary China.
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Edited by John A. Donaldson
Assessing the Balance of Power in CentralLocal Relations in China
Edited by John A. Donaldson
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Names: Donaldson, John A., 1970 editor.
Title: Assessing the balance of power in central-local relations in China / edited by John A. Donaldson.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge contemporary China series ; 154 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Central-local government relationsChina. |
Decentralization in governmentChina.
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Contents
JOHN A. DONALDSON
S. PHILIP HSU
YUKYUNG YEO
LONG YANG
JOHN A. DONALDSON
JAE HO CHUNG
TSE-KANG LENG
XUFENG ZHU
MINGJIANG LI
Jae Ho Chung is Professor of International Relations, Seoul National University, South Korea.
John A. Donaldson is Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
S. Philip Hsu is Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Tse-Kang Leng is Research Fellow of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
Mingjiang Li is Associate Professor of International Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.
Long Yang is Professor of Political Science, Nankai University, Peoples Republic of China.
Yukyung Yeo is Associate Professor of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea.
Xufeng Zhu is Professor of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Peoples Republic of China.
In 2005, just as I finished my PhD and moved to Singapore, Professor Jae Ho Chung established the Asian Network for the Study of Local China (ANSLoC). This innovative group of Asia-based scholars who research local Chinese politics has since met every year, rotating among themselves to host intensive workshops. I am honored to be counted among the founding members. The feedback and support both academic and moral I received from ANSLoC members and invited guests proved vital to my research. I owe a great debt to the extraordinary group that is ANSLoC.
