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Book Synopsis Public Participation and State Building in China by : Dragan Pavlićević
Download or read book Public Participation and State Building in China written by Dragan Pavlićević and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores non-electoral means of public participation in contemporary China, both as an outcome of and a key contributor to the party-state’s efforts to improve its governing capacity. Examining consultative meetings, public hearings, and the use of surveys and questionnaires in Zhejiang province, on an empirical level, the study evaluates the historical development and institutional backgrounds of these mechanisms, as well as provides a critical assessment of their achievements and failures. At the same time, on a theoretical level, this book contributes to the broader scholarship on contemporary Chinese politics and political development within one-party regimes, as well as debates about state building and democratisation. Relying on the distinction between access to and exercise of power, it concludes that non-electoral public participation is in fact a function of state building. Developing a state capable of producing effective solutions to governing challenges, it is argued, requires public participation in the governing process. With analysis informed by interviews with local-level policy-makers and officials, academics, and citizens’ representatives and activists, Public Participation and State Building in China will be a valuable research resource for students and scholars of Chinese politics, political science, and civil society.
Book Synopsis Public Participation and State Building in China by : Dragan Pavlićević
Download or read book Public Participation and State Building in China written by Dragan Pavlićević and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Citizen Participation at the Local Level in China and Canada by : Andrew Sancton
Download or read book Citizen Participation at the Local Level in China and Canada written by Andrew Sancton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, if anything, is similar about citizen participation at the local level in Canada and China? The answer, of course, is politically sensitive. There are many in Canada who would claim that the question is absurd. How can there be meaningful citizen participation in a country where there are significant restrictions on political activity, includ
Book Synopsis The Public Participation System in the Government Policy-Making in China by : Ming Xiao
Download or read book The Public Participation System in the Government Policy-Making in China written by Ming Xiao and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Public Participation System in the Government Policy-making in China: a Shortcut to Legitimizing the State or an Entrenchment of Its Democratization?" by Ming, Xiao, 肖明, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Public participation, as a form of direct democracy, is becoming increasingly popular in the government policy-making process in China. This thesis argues that public participation in China acts neither as a supplement to a well-founded democratic system, nor as an alternative to an electoral democracy, nor even as an effective accountability politico-legal institution. Instead, contemporary public participation is an interim measure that caters to an urgent social need and provides temporary legitimacy to the state. As such, it is the first step towards further political liberalization, for which it lays a foundation. The public participation system in China has developed from its original form as a solely state-led, political campaign-oriented system in the closed era to the coexistence of three ideal-type public participation in the open era: state-led, issue-specific participation, spontaneous, issue-specific, group-based participation and spontaneous, issue-specific, individual-based participation. Public hearing, corporate lobbying and e-participation can be correspondingly treated as representative mechanisms of the three ideal-type public participation in China. In addition, the institutions of open government information and judicial redress are currently the most significant support structures for this system. Relying on the methodologies of case studies, statutory interpretation, quantitative calculation and socio-legal analysis, the thesis finds that citizens can articulate their demands on policies in public hearings, but government organs are inclined to prevent any substantial challenge to their proposed policies. Although business groups have not been conferred with any special systematic opportunity to participate in the formulation of policy, corporate lobbying contributes towards undermining the government''s monopoly in the policy-making. Citizens in e-participation take full advantage of the flexibility and anonymity of the Internet to enjoy a free, low-risk space of debating government policies and monitoring government officials. Although the implementation of the Regulations on Open Government Information has been basically satisfactory, the Regulations have failed to establish the necessary transparency for public participation. What citizens seek in public participation litigations is not only judicial redress of their grievances, but, even more significantly, de facto influence on a policy-making process taking place outside the courtrooms. The public participation system as a whole in China has a paradoxical character in contextual, structural, functional and developmental aspects. Its essential defect is to fall short of a device that makes government policymakers accountable for the output of public participation. The public participation system is used by the state as a viable trajectory for its own legitimization to secure the formal validation of government policies and to reduce the risks that it confronts in the ongoing democratization process. It is used by citizens as a locus of their self-expression values and as an incubator of their developing citizenship, also providing a prompt channel for citizens'' rightful contest. The prospects of this system and its impacts on future legitimization of the state are ultimately underpinned by citizens'' struggles for l
Book Synopsis Public Participation and State Building in China by : Dragan Pavlicevic
Download or read book Public Participation and State Building in China written by Dragan Pavlicevic and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Civil Society and Governance in China by : J. Yu
Download or read book Civil Society and Governance in China written by J. Yu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China.
Book Synopsis Community Participation in China by : Janelle Plummer
Download or read book Community Participation in China written by Janelle Plummer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume provides a source of information on the key issues, including constraints and capacity building, necessary to implement participatory approaches in China today. A wealth of case studies are provided by principal Chinese academics and practitioners in forestry, natural resource management, rural development, irrigation and poverty alleviation. At the core, the book is about strengthening local government as a key player in the development of participatory initiatives. It is an invaluable text for development practitioners, donors, researchers and students seeking to understand the opportunities and constraints for participation in China, and for those working to institutionalize participatory processes in a complex rural context.
Book Synopsis Origins of the Modern Chinese State by : Philip A. Kuhn
Download or read book Origins of the Modern Chinese State written by Philip A. Kuhn and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is "Chinese about Chinas modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of societys wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective. The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the "modern constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.
Book Synopsis China's Governance Puzzle by : Jonathan R. Stromseth
Download or read book China's Governance Puzzle written by Jonathan R. Stromseth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is widely viewed as a global powerhouse that has achieved a remarkable economic transformation with little political change. Less well known is that China's leaders have also implemented far‐reaching governance reforms designed to promote government transparency and increase public participation in official policymaking. What are the motivations behind these reforms and, more importantly, what impact are they having? This puzzle lies at the heart of Chinese politics and could dictate China's political trajectory for years to come. This extensive collaborative study not only documents the origins and scope of these reforms across China, but offers the first systematic assessment by quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing the impact of participation and transparency on important governance outcomes. Comparing across provinces and over time, the authors argue that the reforms are resulting in lower corruption and enhanced legal compliance, but these outcomes also depend on a broader societal ecosystem that includes an active media and robust civil society.
Book Synopsis Construction Of Democracy, The: China's Theory, Strategy And Agenda by : Shangli Lin
Download or read book Construction Of Democracy, The: China's Theory, Strategy And Agenda written by Shangli Lin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book expounds on the role played by democracy in China's revolution and modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and how the CPC, in both its party building and state building, has constantly sought to leverage democracy's positive functions while avoiding its shortcomings.Special attention is paid to reconstructing and explaining the historical contexts from which the Party's theoretical innovations have emerged, thus offering readers insights into the inner political logic that has shaped China's development.The author, a member of the Party's senior policy panel, offers a perceptive analysis of the modernization of the country and its governing capacity, and provides a clear assessment of how democracy in China has developed with the times.Always bearing the big picture in mind, the author has not shied away from some of the more controversial parts of China's recent history, and his deep understanding of relevant Party documents and historical facts give strong support to his analyses. He concludes that that the Party is central to leading the nation to explore its path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and that the country has always emerged stronger after setbacks.
Book Synopsis The China Question by : Dragan Pavlićević
Download or read book The China Question written by Dragan Pavlićević and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations provides fresh perspectives on, and empirics about, China’s international relations through the lens of the local and regional configurations and developments around the world. While China’s foreign policy strategies have received much attention, and in particular the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the local contestations and/or adaptations that China provokes in the countries and regions it engages remain under-researched. In this book, a global collection of scholars examines how countries, societies, and individuals around the world are responding to China‘s rise.
Book Synopsis Community Participation in China by : Janelle Plummer
Download or read book Community Participation in China written by Janelle Plummer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume provides a source of information on the key issues, including constraints and capacity building, necessary to implement participatory approaches in China today. A wealth of case studies are provided by principal Chinese academics and practitioners in forestry, natural resource management, rural development, irrigation and poverty alleviation. At the core, the book is about strengthening local government as a key player in the development of participatory initiatives. It is an invaluable text for development practitioners, donors, researchers and students seeking to understand the opportunities and constraints for participation in China, and for those working to institutionalize participatory processes in a complex rural context.
Book Synopsis Public Hearings as a Venue for Representation and Participation in Reform Era China by : Ceren Ergenc
Download or read book Public Hearings as a Venue for Representation and Participation in Reform Era China written by Ceren Ergenc and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Since Reform and Opening Up in 1978, China gradually made significant changes in its economic and legal system. These systemic changes soon led to social and political developments while the party-state regime remained still. Today's China does not have formal mechanisms of political representation such as elections. However, the rapid changes in the economic and social environment have produced new and mostly informal ways of political participation, such as protests, petitioning, and online public campaigns. Facing a more assertive society, the state responded to the need for political participation and representation with a project of 'administrative democracy'. This new government project mostly involves different mechanisms that enable citizens to participate in policy making.Citizen participation in public administration has become part of the official reform agenda in China since early 2000s. The administrative and legislative public hearings practiced in China are among the earlier examples of such institutionalized public participation. The existing literature on public hearings mostly focuses on the efficiency of the public hearings as a policy tool and their impact on policy-making. My research focuses on the effect of these institutions on the public perceptions about the state and public perceptions about citizens as political actors.I analyze the participant selection mechanism of public hearings, participant demographics and the relationship of the participants with the officials and the broader public in Guiyang, Wuhan and Qingdao. Qualitative data from these three cities, which are located in different socio-economic development zones, suggests that (1) both participants and the broader public see public hearings as a venue for political representation rather than a mere policy-making mechanism, and (2) participants use different strategies to achieve their goals in public hearings and create awareness in the broader public.My research methods are semi-structured interviews with public hearing participants, expert interviews with scholars and officials who designed the hearings in China and an analysis of the written and online media coverage of the public hearings.
Book Synopsis The Public Participation System in the Government Policy-making in China by : Ming Xiao (S. J. D.)
Download or read book The Public Participation System in the Government Policy-making in China written by Ming Xiao (S. J. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Citizen Participation in China by : Xijin Jia
Download or read book Citizen Participation in China written by Xijin Jia and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizen participation is one of the essential issues for democracy. The value of democracy cannot be realized without citizen participation. Taking citizen participation as citizen power, this book studied on 6 cases which represented different levels of citizen power. The six cases included: participatory budgeting by Township Chinese People' s Congress, public policy advocacy, NGOs participation in government procurement, participatory governance in urban communities, participation governance by farms' organization in rural area, and participatory governance among the migrant workers. The book studied the essential mechanism, principles, problem, results, and preconditions of the cases.
Book Synopsis The Public Participation System in the Government Policy-making in China by : 肖明
Download or read book The Public Participation System in the Government Policy-making in China written by 肖明 and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook on Local Governance in China by : Ceren Ergenc
Download or read book Handbook on Local Governance in China written by Ceren Ergenc and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating the crucial importance of local governance in China’s development and international relations, this topical Handbook combines theoretical approaches with novel methodological tools to understand state–society relations at the local level.
