China experiments
Subtitle: from local innovations to national reform
By: Ann Florini, Hairong Lai, and Yeling Tan
Contributors: Lai, Hairong; Tan, Yeling
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815722007
Subjects: Local governments; Organizational change; Decentralization in government; Public administration; Central-local government relations
Description: "Using detailed and empirically grounded analysis, examines the changing relationship between the Chinese state and the society it governs, how governance choices made affect the country and the rest of the world, and how local Chinese authorities have responded to the challenges they face in coping with China's rapid transformation"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: China at a crossroads; title: Streamlining the state; title: The evolution of voting mechanisms; title: Civil society; title: From local experiments to national rules: China lets the sunshine in; title: Where is China going?