Field research-leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights
that significantly inform one's research-remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked …

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 …

Scholars of law and social science have challenged conventional wisdom that law and
courts in authoritarian states are, at best, the tools of dictators and that law fails to matter in …

This study examines the making of local climate governance in the Chinese setting where
central-local inter-governmental relations continue to play critical part in almost every policy …

The introduction starts by contextualizing recent immigration reforms in China that aimed to
comprehend new regional mobilities such as increasing influx of working immigrants from …

Political Science Research in Practice Page 1 Page 2 POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN
PRACTICE Nothing rings truer to those teaching political science research methods: students …

Taking note of the limitations of previously dominant political economy perspectives on
China's urban transformation, and inspired by recent works calling for “beyond-growth” and …

Befördert durch die starke Wachstumsdynamik und den rasanten gesellschaftlichen Wandel
Chinas hat die sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung in den vergangenen drei …

The reorganization of government agencies can be studied as a pre-reform process in terms
of the structural changes made, or as a post-reform process in terms of the effects of the …

Purpose How can governments and survivors prepare for and manage natural disasters?
Post-disaster reconstruction researchers advocate that community involvement is needed to …