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Understanding Local Agency in China's Policy Reform

Understanding Local Agency in China's Policy Reform

She, Xiaoye

Hardcover

Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China

General Political Science

ISBN10: 3030762114
ISBN13: 9783030762117
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 24 2021
Pages: 267
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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 economythat seeks to examine the political and economic logics of social policy in non-western and authoritarian political systems.

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