This article argues that the biggest challenges facing the post-1945 liberal international
order are the need to genuinely embrace ethno-racial diversity and to reduce class-based …

China has a highly centralized bureaucracy that is no longer strictly monitored by political
loyalty but by governance performance (eg, economic growth), rewarded with promotion and …

Researchers are paying increasing attention to issues of rural transformation. Exogenous
and endogenous have been conventionally recognized as the mainstream paradigms of …

The Chinese government has promulgated a wide variety of low-carbon initiatives to control
the rapid growth of energy consumption and carbon emissions in the cities. Past records …

Effective policy implementation is a core component of the Chinese political system's
adaptability and stability. A thorough investigation of local implementation mechanisms …

In March 2006, China's National People's Congress officially promulgated the central
government's intention to “build a new socialist countryside”, a new policy initiative and …

Despite the various water management explorations in China over the past three decades,
China's water problems remain challenging. Recently the Chinese government introduced …

The relationship between the turnover of government leaders and economic performance
has rarely been studied in authoritarian regimes. In mainland China the reforms of the past …

At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods,
underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were …

China's social health insurance has expanded dramatically over the past decade. The
increasing number of beneficiaries and benefits, however, has aggravated rather than …