Szu-chien Hsu,Kellee S. Tsai,and Chun-chih Chang,eds., Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism

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Jianxing Yu and Sujian Guo,eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China

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Nele Noesselt,Ed., Governance Innovation and Policy Change: Recalibrations of Chinese Politics Under Xi Jinping

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Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom,eds., Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States

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Xiaowei Zang and Chien-wen Kou,eds., Elites and Governance in China (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), 164p. $145.00 hardback

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Social Citizenship in China: Continuity and Change

A fundamental feature of Chinese social citizenship is the demarcation between the rural population and the urban population. Entitlement to income security and welfare provision has been exclusively a right of city dwellers. However, as economic reform progresses, the socialist welfare system has become unable to provide adequate protection. Welfare reform intends to widen the social security net, yet it has inadvertently exacerbated social inequality. In the meantime, the inferior social position of the peasantry has worsened as an effect of continued state bias, heightened tax and fee burdens, and the expropriation of farmland for development. In light of the intrusion on their rights and interests, more and more Chinese citizens have taken to protesting to voice their discontent.     

我国“复杂化社会“的形成及其治理

"复杂化社会"是新世纪我国社会发展不能逾越的重要阶段.复杂化社会的形成是对社会发展的理论认识不足、经济利益的边界模糊与失衡、政治权益的分化与重组、文化观念的碰撞与融合等多种因素综合作用的结果.现阶段复杂化社会呈现出阶段性、多因性、多变性和可控性的特点.复杂化社会的治理是一个长期而庞大的系统工程,需要从思想观念、治理工具、政府能力、社会整合等方面进行相互协作与密切配合.     

Kharis Templeman,Yun-han Chu,and Larry Diamond,eds., Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years

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China and Disaster Governance: Assessing the Domestic Sources of a Global Responsibility

This article examines China’s engagement with global disaster governance. It reveals how international sentiments of humanitarian responsibility—understood as the imperative to help one’s own people as well as distant others—resonate deeply with Chinese political and social thought, with important implications for the Chinese leadership in managing the complex challenges presented by natural disasters. Here, modern conceptions of China’s global responsibilities are traced back to historic Chinese thinking on the nexus between political statecraft and able disaster management, and to its experiences in dealing with catastrophic events like the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Together, these have worked to inform China’s contemporary involvement in disaster relief operations within and beyond its borders.     

常规与非常规:地方治理学习型政策变迁的模式比较

地方治理存在常规与非常规两种学习型政策变迁模式。常规学习型政策变迁基于政策工具使用而生成,非常规学习型政策变迁基于公共危机应对而生成,两种模式受布局要求、治理结构和政策体制的制约,同时又反过来强化或重塑治理结构和政策体制,促进或促退地方治理效能,巩固或侵蚀国家治理效能。基于此,可以采取如下优化策略：坚持公共治理,建立“以人民为中心”的治理观;摆脱思维定式,找到规定动作与自选动作的平衡点;改变行为惯习,破解常规治理与非常规治理的悖论困局;采用创新手段,塑造技术治理和治理技术的融合格局。     

新中国70年社会稳定风险治理模式的探索与创新

随着我国社会主要矛盾的变化和国内国际局势的发展,社会稳定风险治理研究应深入探讨我国社会稳定风险内容、形式的变化以及与之相适应的治理方式、方法和模式的变化。纵观新中国成立70年来社会稳定风险治理的发展历程,其治理模式大致经历了"压力管控型""应急维稳型""评估预警型"等三种类型。根据总体国家安全观时代发展要求,结合我国社会稳定风险治理的经验,为了更好地发扬我国现有社会稳定风险治理模式的优点和克服其不足,我国当前的社会稳定风险治理模式应从利益共享、政府信任和多方合作等三个方面加以创新,以构建一种"共享—信任—合作"型社会稳定风险治理模式。     

Thomas B. Gold and Sebastian Veg,eds., Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements,Expressive Practices,and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong

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