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 …

In the implementation process of economic and environmental policy, a key concerned
problem is the inability of some local officials to faithfully implement environmental policies …

To explain the poor results of several international collaborative projects dedicated to
exploring eco-city concepts in China, some scholars pointed out that Chinese policymakers …

Page 1 The Palgrave Macmillan Social Policies and Ethnic Conflict in China Shaoying Zhang
and Derek McGhee Conflict in China Page 2 Social Policies and Ethnic Conflict in China …

Using evidence from China, this study proposes the conflict expansion model to explore how
pressure for policy change can build up to overcome resisting force and stimulate a …

China's social welfare reform since the mid-1980s has been characterized as incremental
and fragmented in three dimensions—social insurance, privatization, and targeting. This …

Against the backdrop of rising populism around the world and democratic backsliding in
countries with robust, multiparty elections, this book asks why ordinary people favor …

Since the financial crisis of 2008–9, how a state can play a more active role in correcting
market failure has become a central topic in political economy. Thus, academia is again …

The Chinese political system is the subject of much media and popular comment in part
because China supports an economy with an apparently inexorable dynamic and …

Despite the general consensus on problems with official income statistics, quantitative data
on the falsification of income statistics have been scarce. This article draws on original …