| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages). |
| Series |
Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
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Challenges facing Chinese political development.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Toward Better Governance; 1. To Build a Government of Better Transparency and More Accountability: the CCP's Governance Performance in the Hu Era; 2. The Super Ministry System Reform in China: Bureaucratic Politics or Administrative Reform toward a Public Service Government?; 3. Generalized vs. Particularized Social Capital: Social Trust and Grass-Roots Governance in Urban China. |
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4. The State's Rubber Stamp or Independent Agent: A Study on the Development of Municipal People's Congress in China5. China's Healthcare System Reform: Development, Issues, and Prospects; 6. Norms, Laws, Political Accountability and China's Legal Reform-the Cases of ALL and Xinfang (L & V); 7. Policy Experimentation and China's Labor Market Regulation: The Case of the Labor Contract Law; 8. Changing Bottom Line: Broadcasting Regulation in China; 9. Why is Xinjiang Still a New Dominion?; 10. The Road to Ethnic Harmony: An Analysis of Internal Causes to the Ethnic Issues in Xinjiang; Index. |
| Summary |
This book examines contemporary Chinese political reform through an examination of a number of policy initiatives taken in recent years. These include programs designed to improve administrative efficiency, transparency, and accountability, as well as directives aimed at rebuilding the regime's political support though strengthening local legislatures, overhauling the health care system, enacting labor contract laws, opening up mass media, and improving governance in China's minority regions. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
China -- Politics and government -- 2002-
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China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
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China -- Ethnic relations.
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Local governance -- China.
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Municipal government -- China.
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Democratization -- China.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. |
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Democratization |
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Economic history |
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Ethnic relations |
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Municipal government |
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Politics and government |
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China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3 |
| Chronological Term |
Since 2000 |
| Added Author |
Hickey, Dennis V.
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Bond, Jon.
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Chen, Jie.
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Chen, Xi.
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Chou, Chia-chen.
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Ding, Sheng.
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Guo, Qian.
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Hickey, Dennis.
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Lou, Diqing.
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Lu, Chunlong.
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Narisong, Huhe.
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Tung, Han-pu.
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Ye, Lin.
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Zhou, Yiran.
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Zhu, Xufeng.
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Zhu, Yuchao.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guo, Baogang. Toward Better Governance in China : An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739140277 |
| ISBN |
9780739140291 |
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0739140299 |
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9780739140277 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0739140272 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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