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Understanding Local Agency in China’s Policy Reform

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Title/Author:	Understanding Local Agency in China’s Policy Reform/ by Xiaoye She.
Author:	She, Xiaoye.
Description:	XIX, 267 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Governance and Government. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76212-4
ISBN:	9783030762124

Understanding Local Agency in China’s Policy Reform
She, Xiaoye.

Understanding Local Agency in China’s Policy Reform[electronic resource] /by Xiaoye She. - 1st ed. 2021. - XIX, 267 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color.online resource. - Politics and Development of Contemporary China. - Politics and Development of Contemporary China.

Chapter 1. Social Policy Reform and Local Agency in China -- Chapter 2. Authoritarian State, Growth Strategies, and Subnational Welfare Politics -- Chapter 3. The Pro-Growth National Reforms: State-led Commodification before 2000s -- Chapter 4. The Return of the State? The New Reforms and Changing Local Agency -- Chapter 5. Local Agency in Healthcare: Limits of Fragmented Universalism -- Chapter 6. Local Agency in Affordable Housing: Asset-Based Welfare or Public Rental?- Chapter 7. Local Agency in Old-Age Care: Articulating State, Society and Family -- Chapter 8. State Responsibility or Societal Participation? The Future of Authoritarian Social Policies.

“The meticulously researched case studies in this book reveal the nuance and complexity of Chinese politics and the modern authoritarian welfare state. Xiaoye She challenges the outdated notion of an unchanging authoritarian welfare state that is all too often treated as an afterthought. Her refreshing focus on sub-national politics speaks to pressing debates about economic development paradigms. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand the realities of Chinese politics today, and authoritarian regimes more broadly.” – Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder, USA This book challenges the common perception or assumption that greater state intervention and re-centralization will result in convergence towards a more equitable and inclusive growth model in China. Instead of asking whether local agency matters, this project examines the conditions and latitude of local agency under initial decentralization followed by increasing top-down re-centralization. The central argument is that in response to common policy directives and pressures from above, disparities in local growth strategies have interacted with political institutions in generating “embedded” sub-national welfare mix models, with varying articulations of state, market, community, and family in Chinese welfare production. The bottom-up feedback effects from these embedded models have somewhat offset growing top-down pressure for re-centralization, contributing to persistent sub-national variations. This author contributes to a growing literature of comparative political economy that seeks to examine the political and economic logics of social policy in non-western and authoritarian political systems. Xiaoye She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at California State University San Marcos, USA.

ISBN: 9783030762124

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-76212-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Governance and Government.

LC Class. No.: JQ1-1852

Dewey Class. No.: 320.95

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