ISBN:
978-0-415-71846-2
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 268 S.
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Routledge studies on China in transition 47
Series Statement:
Routledge studies on China in transition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.1/4120951
Keywords:
Geschichte 2005-2011
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Politik
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Rural development
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Local government
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Ländlicher Raum.
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Verwaltung.
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Politische Reform.
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China Rural conditions
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Government policy
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China.
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Ländlicher Raum
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Verwaltung
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Politische Reform
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Geschichte 2005-2011
Abstract:
"This book presents an analysis of adaptive local policy implementation in China in the context of the "Building of a New Socialist Countryside" (BNSC) policy framework. Based on intensive field work in four counties in Fujian, Jiangxi, Shaanxi and Zhejiang Provinces between 2008 and 2011, it offers detailed analyses of the form and impact of county governments' strategic agency at certain stages and within certain fields of the implementation process (for example, the design of local BNSC programs, the steering of project funding, implementation and evaluation, the establishment of model villages and the management of public participation). Further, this study illustrates that BNSC is far more than the 'empty slogan' described by many observers when it was launched in 2005/2006. Instead, it has already brought about considerable shifts in terms of the process and outcomes of rural policy implementation. Altogether, the results of this research challenge existing paradigms by showing how, against the background of contemporary approaches to rural development and recent reforms initiated by the central state, local bureaucracies' strategic agency can actually push forward effective...albeit not necessarily optimal...policy implementation to some extent, which serves the interests of central authorities, local implementors and rural residents"..
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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