Civil society and governance in China
By: edited by Jianxing Yu and Sujian Guo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780230340961
Subjects: Civil society; Associations, institutions; Public administration; Citizen participation
Description: Civil society and governance have become central concepts in policy practice and academia in China along with the developments of decentralization, marketization, and divergent interests. This wide-ranging collection of essays on civil society and governance, written by scholars from both inside and outside China, explores the complex relationship between governance theory and social science disciplines, using both theoretical approaches and empirical case studies based on the development of civil society and governance practice in China.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the relationship between civil society and governance in China; title: Governance as political theory / B. Guy Peters; title: The tension between governance and state-building / Jianxing Yu and Ziying He; title: Creating civil-society structures top-down? / Thomas Heberer; title: Industry associations' participation in public policymaking from the perspective of state-society relations: a conceptual framework and comparative case studies / Hua Jiang, Jianmin Zhang, Ying Zhou; title: Social enterprise in China / Wolfgang Bielefeld and Lijun He; title: Growing out of participation: finding the developmental path of China's civil society / Jianxing Yu and Jun Zhou; title: Institutional barriers for the development of civil society in current China / He Zengke; title: Recall behavior and right remedy: the internal logic of institutional change-a case study of three social organizations / Jialiang Xu; title: Transforming state and citizen through community building: the view from Zhejiang / Kristen Parris; title: Optimal size of business associations under the principle of "one industry, one association" / Bing He.