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Centrifugal empire : central-local relations in China / Jae Ho Chung.
Author
Chŏng, Chae-ho, 1960-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2016.
Description
1 online resource (229 pages)
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Central-local government relations
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China
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Decentralization in government
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China
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Chinese autonomous regions
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Government policy
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Local government
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China
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China
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Ethnic relations
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Political aspects
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China
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Politics and government
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2002-
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Summary note
Despite the destabilizing pull of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By examining Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China's approach to local governance, its historical roots, and its deflection of divergent interests. Centrifugal Empire examines the logic, mode, and instrument of local governance established by the People's Republic, and then compares the current system to the practices of its dynastic predecessors. The result is an expansive portrait of Chinese leaders' attitudes toward regional threats and local challenges, heightened by territory-specific preoccupations and manifesting in constant searches for an optimal design of control. The book reveals how communist instruments of local governance echo imperial institutions, while exposing the Leninist regime's savvy adaptation to contemporary problems and underscoring the need for more sophisticated inter-local networks to keep its unitary rule intact. It understands the challenges to China's central-local relations as perennial, since the dilution of the system's "socialist" or "Communist" character will only accentuate its fundamentally Chinese'or centrifugal'nature
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. China as a Centrifugal Empire: Size, Diversity, and Local Governance
2. China Goes Local (Again): Assessing Post-Mao Decentralization
3. The Subnational Hierarchy in Time: Institutional Changes (and Continuities)
4. The Center's Perceptions of Local Bureaucracy in China: A Typological First-Cut
5. The Center's Instruments of Local Control
6. Determinants of Local Discretion in Implementation: Exploring Policy-Contingent Variations
7. The Political Economy of Vertical Support and Horizontal Networks
8. Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780231540681 ((electronic bk.))
023154068X ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
956139664
Other standard number
40026356125
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