This article discusses whether Mainland China under the Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao
leadership (2003–13) has developed a new welfare settlement, the emphasis of which is to …

This article aims at setting out a broader context for the debates and discussions on welfare
transformations driven by rapid global challenges and restructuring. Confronted with …

As the origin place of the COVID‐19 outbreak, East Asian welfare states have largely
survived the immediate health threats out of the pandemic shock but have yet to deal with its …

China has experienced significant social, economic and political transformations since its
economic reform started in the late 1970s. Considerable changes in its policy-making and …

This research develops a spatial analytical framework to investigate the spatial distribution
and dynamic evolution of academic patent commercialization. The results showed that the …

Changing central‐local relations shape social policymaking and implementation in China.
We develop a social decentralisation perspective to explore various inter‐governmental …

How do subnational agents exercise policy discretion in the social welfare sphere? To what
extent do they do so as a result of various bureaucratic and fiscal incentives? The literature …

Unlike most books which consider China's transformation and globalization over the last four
decades by focusing on China's economic growth, this book examines how the Chinese …

The household registration (hukou) system has been widely recognized as a key
contributory factor to social inequality and tensions in China yet it remains intact despite a …

While the principal-agent problem has been challenging to public administration in general,
it is particularly acute in China, where implementation gaps abound. This study examines …