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Experimentalist constitutions : subnational policy innovations in China, India, and the United States / Yueduan Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Yueduan, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian Monograph Series
- Harvard East Asian Monograph Series ; v.472
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law--China.
- Constitutional law.
- Constitutional law--India.
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Subnational governments--China.
- Subnational governments.
- Subnational governments--India.
- Subnational governments--United States.
- Decentralization in government--Law and legislation--China.
- Decentralization in government.
- Decentralization in government--Law and legislation--India.
- Decentralization in government--Law and legislation--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, [2024]
- Summary:
- "One of the most commonly cited virtues of American federalism is its "laboratories of democracy"-the notion that decentralization and political competition encourage states to become testing grounds for novel social policies and ideas. In Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different countries, Yueduan Wang argues that the idea of federal laboratories is not exclusive to the American system; instead, similar concepts can be applied to constitutions with different center-local structures and levels of political competition. Using case studies from China, India, and the United States, the book illustrates that these vastly different polities have instituted their own mechanisms of subnational experimentalism based on the interactions between each country's constitutional system and partisan/factional dynamics. The study compares and contrasts these three versions of policy laboratories and comments on their pros and cons, thus making contributions to the discussion of these great powers' competing models of development"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- U.S. model
- The India model
- The China model
- Experimentalist constitutions : comparison and implication.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781684176892
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