Governance Innovation and Policy Change (eBook)

Recalibrations of Chinese Politics under Xi Jinping

Nele Noesselt (Herausgeber)

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2018
226 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8025-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited volume undertakes a critical, theory-guided evaluation of reform policies and institutional change under Xi Jinping. Based on the empirical observations and findings, it proposes a fine-tuning of research frames to assess the multidimensional dynamics of governance recalibrations and the interplay between ideas and policy innovation.

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This edited volume assesses governance innovation and institutional change under the fifth generation of China's political leaders headed by Xi Jinping. The configuration of long-term policy innovation without regime change requires skilled political actors who secure strategic majorities and set up coalitions to design and launch new policies. Recalibrations or reconfigurations of the governance model respond to domestic reform pressures or external shocks in order to secure regime survival. Given that most structural constraints and reform pressures do not arise out of a sudden, the thrilling question is why the political elites sometimes decide not to engage in institutional reforms despite of widespread societal support for major restructuring and why they suddenly launch institutional changes in times of relative stability. The authors address these issues by focusing on basic patterns and paradigms of governance and institutional change in China, the actors and drivers of governance innovation, as well as the impact of norms, values, and socio-cognitive orientations. This is added by some reflections on the interplay between abstract ideas, reform debates, and the making of concrete decisions as outlined by the Third Plenum on (socio-)economic reforms in 2013 and the Fourth Plenum on rule-based governance (fazhi) in 2014.

Autor

Nele Noesselt is professor of political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Inhalt

Introduction: Governance Innovation and Policy ChangeNele NOESSELTPart I:Reflecting on the Field of Chinese Political Studies1. Political Science and Chinese Political Studies—Where Is Chinese Political Science Headed?Sujian GUO 2. Dehegemonizing the Discipline: China’s Contribution to a Pluralist Political Science Jon TAYLOR3. Decrypting Chinese Politics: Critical Discourse Analysis meets fsQCAElizaveta PRIUPOLINA and Fan YANG Part II: Values, Norms, and Political Culture in Contemporary China4. Economic Modernization and Political Attitudes in Contemporary ChinaKent FREEZE5. Sino-Western Cognitive Differences and Western Liberal Biases in Chinese Political StudiesBaogang GUO 6. Top-level Design, Reform Pressures, and Local Adaptations: An Interpretation of the Trajectory of Reform since the 18th CPC Party CongressXuedong YANG and Yan JIANPart III: Local Governance Reform and Rule of Law7. The Acrobatic Justice on the Marching Order: China’s Fourth Judicial Reform in PerspectiveWei-chin LEE8. Carrots, Sticks or Alternatives? The Choice of Environmental Policy Instruments in ChinaZhiyuan ZHANG 9. Reinventing the Chinese “Leviathan”: Constitutionalizing Politics under Xi JinpingNele NOESSELTConclusion: Re-Calibrations and Re-EvaluationsNele NOESSELT

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
• Co-Autor: Kent Freeze, Xuedong Yang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Baogang Guo, Sujian Guo, Yan Jian, Wei-chin Lee, Nele Noesselt, Elizaveta Priupolina, Jon Taylor, Fan Yang
• Zusatzinfo: 32 Illustrations including: - 14 Black & White Illustrations; - 18 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 18th CPC Party Congress • China • fazhi • Fourth Plenum • fsQCA • Governance • Government • Institutional Change • Policy Innovation • Reform • Third Plenum • Xi Jinping
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8025-4 / 1498580254
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8025-0 / 9781498580250