China's economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction.
However, China's institutions look ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer …

In the past years, Chinese firms increased their spending on R&D substantially and worked
on achieving a higher quality level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities …

The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide
emissions. This book analyses the nature of energy governance in China by combining …

China's population is aging rapidly, while the traditional long‐term care (LTC) system that
heavily relies on families is eroding. In response, China has embarked on a journey of policy …

At a time when many Western standard recipes for economic policy are losing credibility, it is
imperative to step back from past orthodox explanations and rethink the unconventional …

Chinese banks have been making headlines recently, but what lies beneath? Banking in
China appears different. What explains the current arrangement? What can we expect from …

Many studies put forward the argument that local policy experimentation, a key feature of
China's policy process in the Hu Jintao era, has been paralysed by Xi Jinping's (re) …

The political failure of China's first independent regulator in a strategic industry–the State
Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), 2002–2013–provides a natural experiment to …

Employing insights from political economics, international relations, and China studies, we
identify the key variables that shape the dynamics of the US–China rivalry and investigate …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 International Political Economy Series General Editor: Timothy M. Shaw,
Professor and Director, Institute of w International Relations, The University of the West Indies …