De Facto Federalism In China: Reforms And Dynamics Of Central-local Relations

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World Scientific, 23 janv. 2007 - 460 pages
This book is the first attempt to conceptualize China's central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, China's central-local relations is increasingly functioning on federalist principles.Federalism as a functioning system in China is under studied. The author defines the political system existing in China as “de facto federalism”, and provides a detailed analysis of its sources and dynamics in the book. The system is mainly driven by two related factors — inter-governmental decentralization and globalization. While economic decentralization since the 1980s has led to the formation of de facto federalism, globalization since the 1990s has accelerated this process and generated increasingly high pressure on the Chinese leadership to institutionalize de facto federalism by various measures of selective recentralization.
 

Table des matières

1 Approaches to CentralLocal Relations in China
1
Organizations Procedures and Norms in Chinas CentralLocal Relations
31
3 Reciprocal Interaction in De Facto Federalism
73
Jiangsu under Decentralization
115
Zhejiang under Intergovernmental Decentralization
169
Guangdong under Intergovernmental Recentralization
229
Interprovincial Coalition in De Facto Federalism
289
8 Whither Chinas De Facto Federalism?
353
References
383
Index
419
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