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Toward better governance in China : an unconventional pathway of political reform / edited by Baogang Guo and Dennis Hickey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Challenges facing Chinese political development.
- Challenges facing Chinese political development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Local government--China.
- Local government.
- Municipal government--China.
- Municipal government.
- Democratization--China.
- Democratization.
- China--Politics and government--2002-.
- China.
- China--Economic conditions--2000-.
- China--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines contemporary Chinese political reform through an examination of a number of policy initiatives taken in recent years. These include programs designed to improve administrative efficiency, transparency, and accountability, as well as directives aimed at rebuilding the regime's political support though strengthening local legislatures, overhauling the health care system, enacting labor contract laws, opening up mass media, and improving governance in China's minority regions.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Toward Better Governance; 1. To Build a Government of Better Transparency and More Accountability: the CCP's Governance Performance in the Hu Era; 2. The Super Ministry System Reform in China: Bureaucratic Politics or Administrative Reform toward a Public Service Government?; 3. Generalized vs. Particularized Social Capital: Social Trust and Grass-Roots Governance in Urban China
- 4. The State's Rubber Stamp or Independent Agent: A Study on the Development of Municipal People's Congress in China5. China's Healthcare System Reform: Development, Issues, and Prospects; 6. Norms, Laws, Political Accountability and China's Legal Reform-the Cases of ALL and Xinfang (L & V); 7. Policy Experimentation and China's Labor Market Regulation: The Case of the Labor Contract Law; 8. Changing Bottom Line: Broadcasting Regulation in China; 9. Why is Xinjiang Still a New Dominion?; 10. The Road to Ethnic Harmony: An Analysis of Internal Causes to the Ethnic Issues in Xinjiang; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-33545-0
- 0-7391-4029-9
- OCLC:
- 852757178
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