This book challenges the common perception or assumption that
greater state intervention and re-centralization will result in
convergence towards a more equitable and inclusive growth model in
China. Instead of asking whether local agency matters, this project
examines the conditions and latitude of local agency under initial
decentralization followed by increasing top-down re-centralization.
The central argument is that in response to common policy
directives and pressures from above, disparities in local growth
strategies have interacted with political institutions in
generating "embedded" sub-national welfare mix models, with varying
articulations of state, market, community, and family in Chinese
welfare production. The bottom-up feedback effects from these
embedded models have somewhat offset growing top-down pressure for
re-centralization, contributing to persistent sub-national
variations. This author contributes to a growing literature of
comparative political economy that seeks to examine the political
and economic logics of social policy in non-western and
authoritarian political systems.
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