DE FACTO FEDERALISM IN CHINA: REFORMS AND DYNAMICS OF CENTRAL-LOCAL RELATIONS: 7 (Series on Contemporary China) - Hardcover

ZHENG YONGNIAN

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812700161 ISBN 13: 9789812700162

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 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.

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Review

It comes recommended to those who are interested in the various forms of economic governance in the provinces Zheng covers. For those studying central-local relations, it provides a basis from which to further probe the difficult issue of institutionalised reciprocity in China's fragmented polity.
--China Perspectives

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9812700161
• ISBN 13: 9789812700162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 460