Toward Better Governance in China An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform

by Guo, Baogang; 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

• ISBN13: 9780739140277
• ISBN10: 0739140272
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-12
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Toward Better Governance in China: An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become a breakthrough point of the much-anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government continues to play down expectations about political reform, many small-scale reform experiments have been quietly undertaken by Chinese leaders at various levels, including the recent round of administrative reform centered on the creation of super ministries, the enlargement of inner-party democracy within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the strengthening of local legislative bodies, and judicial reform designed to promote judicial independence and rule of law. This strategy calls for strengthening governing capacity and changing government functions.

Author Biography

Baogang Guo is associate professor of political science at Dalton State College in Georgia. Dennis Hickey is the James Morris Professor of Political Science at Missouri State University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction Toward Better Governance	p. 1
To Build a Government of Better Transparency and More Accountability: the CCPÆs Governance Performance in the Hu Era	p. 17
The Super Ministry System Reform in China: Bureaucratic Politics or Administrative Reform toward a Public Service Government?	p. 35
Generalized vs. Particularized Social Capital: Social Trust and Grass-Roots Governance in Urban China	p. 51
The StateÆs Rubber Stamp or Independent Agent: A Study on the Development of Municipal PeopleÆs Congress in China	p. 71
ChinaÆs Healthcare System Reform: Development, Issues, and Prospects	p. 89
Norms, Laws, Political Accountability and ChinaÆs Legal Reform-the Cases of ALL and Xinfang (L & V)	p. 103
Policy Experimentation and ChinaÆs Labor Market Regulation: The Case of the Labor Contract Law	p. 125
Changing Bottom Line: Broadcasting Regulation in China	p. 147
Why is Xinjiang Still a New Dominion?	p. 163
The Road to Ethnic Harmony: An Analysis of Internal Causes to the Ethnic Issues in Xinjiang	p. 183
Index	p. 205
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.