Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of
democratization? Yet China, the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has …

This essay reviews recent scholarship on four key components of the post-Mao party state's
cadre management regime—nomenklatura system, cadre performance evaluation system …

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 …

Descriptions of social change in China seem to be naturally associated with the metaphor of
'revolution'(Jing Wang 2001: 36-7). To a certain extent, the analogy is apt, especially when …

China's city regionalization aims to remedy the negative effects of territorial fragmentation in
search of coordinated development across various jurisdictions. Scant research systemically …

In October 2008, the Intel Shanghai Communist Party branch helped to organize what was
probably the largest speed-dating event in history. Working “under the care of” the local …

The performance-based reform programme launched by Fujian province in 2000 has been
adopted by many other Chinese provinces, including Zhejiang, Hebei, Anhui and Sichuan …

Early literature on China's civil society focused on organizations' autonomy from the state.
However, the precise ways in which these organizations are dependent on the state–and on …

The Paired Assistance to Disaster Affected Areas (PADAA) programme is a mutual aid
initiative with Chinese characteristics, which speeded up the process of restoring and …

在中国经济持续30 多年高速发展中, 地方政府是发展的主要动力, 但从上世纪90 年代末以来,
地方政府在发展经济中所产生的负面效果越来越明显, 中央出台了一系列政策去调整和引导地方 …