CENTRE AND PROVINCES: CHINA 1978-93 by Linda Chelan Li ( 9780198293613 )

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CENTRE AND PROVINCES: CHINA 1978-93
POWER AS NON-ZERO-SUM

By:

Linda Chelan Li

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Hardback

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0198293615

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1998

Series:

Studies on Contemporary China

Pages:

356

Description:

This book constructs an interactive model of power to explain the relations of the central and provincial governments in reform China. Power in a context of interdependence flows from both sides. Unlike most previous analyses, Centre and Provinces: China 1978-93 argues that provincial non-compliance is partly the product of central policy as well as provincial choice. An adequate understanding of change requires full recognition of this mutuality of powerand its manifestations. Compromises are struck amidst protracted conflicts and interdependence, resulting in a more institutionalized form of relations.

Synopsis:

Centre and Provinces: China 1978-93 goes beyond the dominant state capacity paradigm to argue for an interactive model to explain the political relations between the central and provincial governments in contemporary China. The uni-dimensional, centrist perspective of the state capacity paradigm has failed to adequately explain the coexistence of central and provincial power, and to anticipate circumstances of change. In this book a hybrid rational-choice cum institutional approach highlights the mutual power of both the Centre and the provinces. each party, the Centre or the provinces, imposes structural constraints upon the other. Power is not a zero-sum game. The cases of Shanghai and Guangdong, important resourceful provinces under very different central policy contexts, contrast possible interactions between central policy and provincial choice. Conflicts amidst a context of mutual dependence necessitate compromise on both sides, and qualitative changes to centreprovince relations as a result may well have long-term implications for wider political processes.

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8 figures, 7 tables

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Clarendon Press

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