Centrifugal Empire : : Central-Local Relations in China / / Jae Ho Chung.
Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing's strategies for maintaining cont...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 30 graphs and tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1. China as a Centrifugal Empire: Size, Diversity, and Local Governance
- 2. China Goes Local (Again): Assessing Post- Mao Decentralization
- 3. The Subnational Hierarchy in Time: Institutional Changes (and Continuities)
- 4. The Center's Perceptions of Local Bureaucracy in China
- 5. The Center's Instruments of Local Control
- 6. Determinants of Local Discretion in Implementation: Exploring Policy- Contingent Variations
- 7. The Political Economy of Vertical Support and Horizontal Networks
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index