Is the Chinese ‘entrepreneurial welfare state’ an industrial policy in disguise?

Abstract

What has driven China, a developing country that has only recently saved itself from nationwide poverty, to increase its investment in social welfare so rapidly and extensively in the past decade? Drawing on extensive field research in a prefecture-level district in southwest China between 2014 and 2017, the authors argue in this article that local governments in China provide welfare housing programmes as a veil for developmentalist industrial policies aimed at industrial upgrading and the improvement of dynamic efficiency. The article demonstrates the unique incentive structure behind the local Chinese governments’ role as the front-line investor in social welfare benefits, and how the local state has cunningly used the façade of welfare provision to (1) divert the earmarked budget to implement development-oriented industrial policy; and (2) fake a discursive congruence between the heavily interventionist local practice and the overall neoliberal central-level policy discourse that features deregulation, small government and a laissez-faire developmental pathway. Exploring this set of strategic dynamics underlining the manoeuvres of the Chinese welfare operation helps us understand the variability of welfare state forms and trajectories of developmental strategy in the Global South.     

Reassessment of the state role in the development of high-tech industry: A case study of Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park

This article reassesses the state role in the development of high-tech industries through a case study of one of the earliest science parks in Asia, Hsinchu Science Park. Taking a historical and public policy approach to this issue, the article argues that the state did play a positive role in the growth of hightech industries in Taiwan. However, not all positive outcomes were derived from rational political elites and state bureaucracy. There existed many unintended and path-dependent consequences. In addition, many planned goals have not been achieved and there were many side effects and negative outcomes neglected by previous studies, which give significant implications for the evaluation, of state's capability and limitation in pursuing economic development.     

El Alto,Ciudad Rebelde: Organisational Bases for Revolt

The events of October 2003 reveal something about how Bolivian democracy works under ‘normal’ circumstances because they built upon well‐established patterns of political behaviour whereby corporate groupings have become used to direct negotiations with the government. It was the breakdown of these patterns that forced the resignation of the President in 2003. I detail here the collective identities that provide the foundations for mobilisational power in Bolivia and examine the organisation behind the uprising in El Alto and its roots in quotidian experiences of collective mobilisation. I conclude with a consideration of the relationship between social mobilisation, democracy and politics in contemporary Bolivia.     

略论董辅礽关于所有制改革的理论

董辅礽是当代我国最有影响力的经济学家之一。他是我国从上世纪70年代末改革开放以来对我国经济体制改革和经济发展作了全面、系统地理论探讨的少数学者之一。他的关于所有制改革特别是国有制改革的理论和实施步骤,以及关于运用市场经济体制以替代原有的指令性计划经济体制的理论和政策、策略都具有重大的突破性和明显的超前性。他的著作和文章对我国党和政府领导的决策具有重要影响,并且对我国的实际经济生活发生了积极作用。     

检察机关应对入世问题研究

入世对检察机关的影响主要表现在检察机关执法观念陈旧、检察权定位不准确、检察体制改革不完备和检察行为不规范方面。为尽快适应入世要求 ,检察机关应更新执法观念 ,树立人权保护意识、诉讼效益观念、公益监督意识 ,正确定位检察权 ,健全检察体制 ,使检察行为进一步规范化、科学化、专业化     

国际组织法律人格探源

随着国际组织日益成为国际关系的重要参与者 ,国际组织的法律人格得到了国际法的承认。国家在加入国际组织时往往对部分主权作出一定的让渡 ,但国家主权与国际组织的法律人格在根本上并不冲突 ,两者是相互统一、相互促进的。     

廉政是维系政权兴衰存亡的生命线 --学习江泽民同志"七一"讲话的几点体会

廉政是维系政权兴衰存亡的生命线,已被历史反复证明。中央三代领导集体在加强党风廉政建设和反腐斗争中取得的丰富经验,集中反映了中华民族的优秀思想成果,是马克思列宁主义普遍真理同中国具体实际紧密结合的产物。     

关于"国家工作人员"的司法解释简介与评说

现行刑法自 1997年修订生效后 ,最高人民检察院、最高人民法院曾下达 7个司法解释 ,以明确具体的国家机关工作人员的认定 ;立法及司法机关相继颁布 4则立法、司法解释 ,以明确准国家工作人员的范围。从学理的层面进行审视 ,这 11个立法解释及司法解释在解释的形式与内容上均存在欠缺之处。司法适用中需要立法机关、司法机关作出必要的解释 ,但作为法律解释 ,尤其是司法解释 ,不能超越法律的规定不适当地扩大或缩小     

公文著作对国家行政机关公文讲解存在的不足

目前各类公文著述对国家行政机关公文讲解存在某些错误或不足之处。公文著述解释国家行政机关公文必须扣紧《国家行政机关公文处理办法》 ,吃透相关公文的规定 ;注意《办法》规定的适用范围     

开放状态下大学生政治价值观结构形态的定位研究

对开放状态下大学生政治价值观结构形态的定位研究,目前有四种有争议的论点:(１)认为是国家大政治、大背景下的结构形态;(２)认为是大学生的政治情感、政治观念、政治行为的表现形态;(３)认为是政治价值观价值结构的工具性、理论性、终极性价值层面的表现形态;(４)认为是大学生政治人格的表现形态。这四种论点,实际上对应着相关的政治教育模式。各种政治教育模式定位,各有其优势和不足。系统、科学地对大学生政治观结构形态进行定位研究成为目前的理论热点和难点。