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Author Guo, Baogang

Title Toward Better Governance in China : an Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
Challenges facing Chinese political development.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Toward Better Governance; 1. To Build a Government of Better Transparency and More Accountability: the CCP's Governance Performance in the Hu Era; 2. The Super Ministry System Reform in China: Bureaucratic Politics or Administrative Reform toward a Public Service Government?; 3. Generalized vs. Particularized Social Capital: Social Trust and Grass-Roots Governance in Urban China
4. The State's Rubber Stamp or Independent Agent: A Study on the Development of Municipal People's Congress in China5. China's Healthcare System Reform: Development, Issues, and Prospects; 6. Norms, Laws, Political Accountability and China's Legal Reform-the Cases of ALL and Xinfang (L & V); 7. Policy Experimentation and China's Labor Market Regulation: The Case of the Labor Contract Law; 8. Changing Bottom Line: Broadcasting Regulation in China; 9. Why is Xinjiang Still a New Dominion?; 10. The Road to Ethnic Harmony: An Analysis of Internal Causes to the Ethnic Issues in Xinjiang; Index
Summary This book examines contemporary Chinese political reform through an examination of a number of policy initiatives taken in recent years. These include programs designed to improve administrative efficiency, transparency, and accountability, as well as directives aimed at rebuilding the regime's political support though strengthening local legislatures, overhauling the health care system, enacting labor contract laws, opening up mass media, and improving governance in China's minority regions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Local governance -- China
Municipal government -- China
Democratization -- China
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Democratization
Economic history
Ethnic relations
Municipal government
Politics and government
SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498
China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
China -- Ethnic relations
Subject China
Form Electronic book
Author Hickey, Dennis V
Bond, Jon
Chen, Jie
Chen, Xi
Chou, Chia-chen
Ding, Sheng
Guo, Qian
Hickey, Dennis
Lou, Diqing
Lu, Chunlong
Narisong, Huhe
Tung, Han-pu
Ye, Lin
Zhou, Yiran
Zhu, Xufeng
Zhu, Yuchao
ISBN 9780739140291
0739140299