De Facto Federalism in China: Reforms and Dynamics of Central-local Relations - Couverture rigide

Zheng, Yongnian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9812700161 ISBN 13 : 9789812700162

Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9812700161
• ISBN 13: 9789812700162
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 460
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible