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13112 results in East Asian government, politics and policy

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  • 11 - Unorganized Interests and Collective Action

  • from Part III - The Logic of Governance and Chinese Society
  • Xueguang Zhou, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    The Logic of Governance in China
    Published online:
    16 December 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 274-300

  • Summary

    We shall know that a new era has begun not when a new elite holds power or a new constitution appears, but when ordinary people begin contending for their interests in new ways.

    Charles Tilly (1986, p. 9)
    In this chapter, I examine the relationship between the institutional logic of governance and patterns of popular contention and resistance in contemporary China. As Tilly (1986) points out, forms of contention provide important information not only about how the society has been governed but also on the extent of changes in the underlying logic of governance. Indeed, the fundamental tension between the centralization of authority and effective, local governance evolves and is often intensified in response to grass-roots inputs from the society. Different forms of collective resistance have been widespread in China, and they have even become more visible and on a larger scale in the post-Mao era (Cai 2010, Chen 2009, Chen 2012, Zhou and Ai 2016). A closer look at collective action from the bottom-up provides clues about how China is governed and the response by the resistance.

  • 4 - Campaign-Style Mobilization as a Mechanism of Governance

  • from Part I - The Logic of Governance: Institutions and Mechanisms
  • Xueguang Zhou, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    The Logic of Governance in China
    Published online:
    16 December 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 81-102

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on an important and prevalent mechanism in Chinese state governance – campaign-style mobilization (CSM), especially in the form of political campaigns and large-scale mass movements. In Chapter 2, I discuss relations between the Chinese state and the Chinese bureaucracy, and their interdependence and tensions. The scale of governance and the long chain of command lead to the plague of bureaucratic problems in China’s governance. In Chapter 3, I argue that there are different modes of Chinese governance, ranging from tight-coupling, subcontracting, loose-coupling, to federalism, thus leading to a process of variable-coupling. Campaign-style mobilization, as this chapter will show, is a political tool for the centralized authority to tighten up political control during struggles against bureaucrats and it is an effective mechanism to induce shifts among different modes of governance. This chapter thus provides a conceptual link integrating the first three chapters of this book: interconnections among the mode of domination and the bureaucracy, shifts in different modes of governance in light of control rights, and the role of CSM in the interactive processes.

  • 3 - Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A Control Rights Theory

  • from Part I - The Logic of Governance: Institutions and Mechanisms
  • Xueguang Zhou, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    The Logic of Governance in China
    Published online:
    16 December 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 53-80

  • Summary

    In Chapter 2, I situate the role of the Chinese bureaucracy in the larger institutional context of patrimonial and party-state domination, whereby bureaucratic power acquires legitimation from, and is subordinate to, the arbitrary power of the emperor or the ruling party. However, the authority relationship is neither static nor rigid; rather, it is realized through a process of constant readjustment. In this chapter, I take a closer look at the internal processes and develop a middle-ranged theory on the allocation of control rights across hierarchical levels and the resultant distinct modes of governance in the Chinese bureaucracy. The proposed theoretical model is intended to shed light on a defining characteristic of the institutional mechanisms in China’s governance, namely, the variable coupling across hierarchical levels and across central and local governments.

China and Global Food Security

China and Global Food Security
  • Shaohua Zhan
  • Published online:
    05 October 2022
    Print publication:
    03 November 2022
  • In less than half a century (1978–2020), China has transformed itself from a country that barely fed itself to a powerful player in the global food system, characterized by massive food imports, active overseas agricultural engagement, and the global expansion of Chinese agribusiness. This Element offers a nuanced analysis of China's global food strategy and its impacts on food security and the international agri-food order. To feed a population of 1.4 billion, China actively seeks overseas agri-food resources whilst maintaining a high level of domestic food production. This strategy gives China an advantageous position in the global food system, but it also creates contradictions and problems within and beyond the country. This could potentially worsen global food insecurity in the long term.

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