Politics of Modern China, (4 Volume Set)

After nearly three decades of rapid economic development, China is now a major power whose actions can significantly affect other countries, from America to Zimbabwe. As a result, China Studies has grown exponentially. In particular, there is a growing interest in studies of Chinese politics, not least because of the considerable uncertainties that remain over the country’s future political direction.

This new Routledge title is a comprehensive collection of the best classic and cutting-edge scholarship. Volume I examines policy-making and policy implementation and includes analyses of élite politics, central–local relations, government reform, and bureaucratic behaviour. Volume II explores political economy, including issues such as property rights, the management of foreign investment, reform of state-owned enterprises, and financial reform. Volume III brings together the best political analysis of social problems such as unemployment, the rural–urban income gap, the inadequate provision of social welfare, the exploitation of migrant workers, and new public-health challenges. The final volume of the collection focuses on democratization and is organized around themes such as political reform, the development of civil society, political participation, and political culture.

Politics of Modern China is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context. In addition to the general introduction, there is a thematic introduction to each volume.

Volume I : Policy-making and Policy Implementation

Part 1 : Faction and Elite Politics
Chapter 1 : The Modernization of Factionalism in Chinese Politics’, World Politics
Chapter 2 : Factions and The Politics of Guanxi : Paradoxes in Chinese Administrative and Political Behaviour’, The China Journal
Chapter 3 : Factionalism : A New Institutionalist Restatement’, The China Journal
Chapter 4 : The Dynamics of Elite Politics During The Jiang Era’, The China Journal
Chapter 5 : Trends in The Study of Political Elites and Institutions in The PRC’, The China Quarterly

Part 2 : Bureaucratic Authoritarianism
Chapter 6 : The "Fragmented Authoritarianism" Model and its Limitations, Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China
Chapter 7 : Decision Rules : Delegating by Consensus’, The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China
Chapter 8 : Chinese People’s Congress and Legislative Embeddedness : Understanding Early Organizational Development’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 9 : Institutional Reform and The Bianzhi System in China’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 10 : Information, Bureaucracy, and Economic Reforms in China and The Soviet Union’, World Politics
Chapter 11 : Partial Reform and The Chinese Bureaucracy in The Post-Mao Era’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 12 : StrengThening Central CCP Control of Leadership Selection : The 1990 Nomenklatura’, The China Quarterly

Part 3 : Central - Local Relations, Local Politics, and Policy Implementation
Chapter 13 : China’s De Facto Federalism, Federalism in Asia
Chapter 14 : Towards a Non-Zero-Sum Interactive Framework of Spatial Politics : The Case of Centre-Province in Contemporary China’, Political Studies
Chapter 15 : The Emergence of The Campaign to Open Up The West : Ideological Formation, Central Decision-Making and The Role of The Provinces’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 16 : Taxation without Representation : Peasants, The Central and Local States in Reform China’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 17 : Rural Political Networks Beyond The State’, Local Causes of China’s Economic Reforms

Volume II : Political Economy

Part 4 : Dynamics of Development
Chapter 18 : Federalism Chinese Style : The Political Basis for Economic Success in China’, World Politics
Chapter 19 : Fiscal Reform and The Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism’, World Politics
Chapter 20 : Privatizing Rural China : Insider Privatization, Innovative Contracts and The Performance of Township Enterprises’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 21 : Did Government Decentralization Cause China’s Economic Miracle?’, World Politics
Chapter 22 : Keeping Up with The Jones’ : Decentralization, Policy Imitation, and Industrial Development’, World Development
Chapter 23 : Quest for Constitutional Justification : Privatization with Chinese Characteristics’, Journal of Contemporary China
Chapter 24 : Moving Beyond Transition in China : Financial Reform and The Political Economy of Declining Growth’, Comparative Politics
Chapter 25 : The Institutional Process of Market Clientalism : Guanxi and Private Business in a South China City’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 26 : Globalization, International Coalitions, and Domestic Reform’, Critical Asian Studies

Part 5 : Economic Performance and Political Corruption
Chapter 27 : Changing Concepts of Corruption in Communist China, Changes and Continuities in Chinese Communism
Chapter 28 : The Intensification of Corruption in China’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 29 : Booty Socialism, Bureau-preneurs, and The State in Transition : Organizational Corruption in China’, Comparative Politics
Chapter 30 : The Illicit Asset Stripping in Chinese Firms’, China Journal

Part 6 : Institutional Reform and State Building
Chapter 31 : China in Transition : The Political Foundations of Incremental Reform’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 32 : Economic Transformation and State Rebuilding in China, Holding China TogeTher : Diversity and National Integration in The Post-Deng Era
Chapter 33 : The Business of Governing Business in China : Institutions and Norms of The Emerging Regulatory State’, World Politics
Chapter 34 : Adaptive Informal Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change in China’, World Politics

Volume III : Political Sociology

Part 7 : Reform and Social Changes
Chapter 35 : Becoming Dagongmei (Working Girls) : The Politics of Identity and Difference in Reform China’, China Journal
Chapter 36 : Labour Market Reform and The Plight of The Laid-off Proletariat’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 37 : The Victory of Materialism : Aspirations to Join China’s Urban Moneyed Classes and The Commercialization of Education’, The China Journal
Chapter 38 : Capitalists without a Class : Political Diversity Among Private Entrepreneurs in China’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 39 : China Coast Identities : Region, Nation, and World, China’s Quest for National Identity

Part 8 : Collective Action and Contentious Politics
Chapter 40 : Unorganized Interests and Collective Action in Communist China’, American Sociological Review
Chapter 41 : Mounting Challenges to Governance in China : Surveying Collective Protestors, Religious Sects and Criminal Organizations’, The China Journal
Chapter 42 : Environmental Protests in Rural China, Chinese Society : Change, Conflict, and Resistance, 2nd edn
Chapter 43 : House Church Movements and Religious Freedom in China’, China : International Journal
Chapter 44 : Popular Contention and its Impact in Rural China’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 45 : Information Technology, Public Space, and Collective Action in China’, Comparative Political Studies

Part 9 : State Responses
Chapter 46 : Challenging The Mandate of Heaven : Popular Protest in Modern China’, Critical Asian Studies
Chapter 47 : Between The State and Labour : The Conflict of Chinese Trade Unions’ Double Identity in Market Reform’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 48 : An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 49 : The Reform of Social Welfare in China’, World Development
Chapter 50 : Political and Social Trends in The Post-Deng Urban China : Crisis or Stability?’, The China Quarterly

Volume IV : Democratization

Part 10 : The Development of Democracy
Chapter 51 : Accommodating "Democracy" in a One-Party State : Introducing Village Election in China’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 52 : Village Committee Elections in China : Institutionalist Tactics for Democracy’, World Politics
Chapter 53 : To Vote or Not to Vote : An Analysis of Peasants’ Participation in Chinese Village Elections’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 54 : Democracy, Community, Trust : The Impact of Elections in Rural China’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 55 : Women’s Political Participation in China : In Whose Interests Elections?’ Journal of Contemporary China
Chapter 56 : Law and Development of Constitutional Democracy : Is China a Problematic Case?’, The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Chapter 57 : Citizens v : Mandarins : Administrative Litigation in China’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 58 : Managed Participation in China’, Political Science Quarterly

Part 11 : Organizations, Institutions, and Democracy
Chapter 59 : The Autonomy of Chinese NGOs : A New Perspective’, China : An International Journal
Chapter 60 : Organizational Involvement and Political Participation in China’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 61 : Cooptation and Corporatism in China : The Logic of Party Adaptation’, Political Science Quarterly
Chapter 62 : Institution Building and Democratization in China’, Elite Politics in Contemporary China

Part 12 : Economic Development, Legitimacy, and Democracy
Chapter 63 : Development and Democracy : Are They Compatible in China?’, Political Science Quarterly
Chapter 64 : "Reform and Openness" : Why China’s Economic Reforms Have Delayed Democracy’, World Politics
Chapter 65 : Legitimacy Crisis in China, State and Society in 21st Century China
Chapter 66 : Casting a Chinese "Democracy" Movement : The Roles of Students, Workers, and Entrepreneurs, Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China, 2nd edn :
Chapter 67 : Mutual Empowerment of State and Peasantry : Grassroots Democracy in Rural China’, World Development