This article elaborates on the theoretical issues related to the decentralization of social
provision within China's reform contexts. The major contention is that, due to the specific …

Central–local relations have been always regarded as one of fundamental institutional
arrangements that determine rapid economic development in China. However, the dynamics …

The restructuring of welfare institutions in China has attracted growing academic interest in
recent decades, mainly in response to the emerging phenomenon of active state …

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

Social welfare in China has experienced many changes in recent years that reflect in turn
changes in government social policy. Social policy can be seen as the outcome of a series …

In the last three decades, China has experienced dual decentralization in transforming its
economy, resulting in decentralization and deconcentration in public administration and …

Urban–rural harmonisation has risen to prominence in recent social security reform in
China. This article offers an account of the changing welfare institutions and social …

Local variation in social welfare provision appears in myriad contexts around the world. And
yet, our attempts at conceptualizing welfare regimes focus on the national level. In China …

Drawing on the existing welfare state literature, this article offers a comparative analytical
framework to account for the territorial dynamics of social policy in the United States and the …

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 …