{"title":"Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang about China and Political Science","authors":"C. Tien, Robyn Marasco","doi":"10.1086/725364","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Charles Tien and Robyn Marasco: In your award winning 2016 book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, you show how China’s economic development was made possible by what you call “directed improvisation”—directives from leaders in Beijing to local officials to improvise in finding solutions to everchanging problems. Has this reliance on local level-improvisation changed under Xi Jinping in recent years? Has this model been applied to battling COVID?","PeriodicalId":46912,"journal":{"name":"Polity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Polity","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725364","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Charles Tien and Robyn Marasco: In your award winning 2016 book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, you show how China’s economic development was made possible by what you call “directed improvisation”—directives from leaders in Beijing to local officials to improvise in finding solutions to everchanging problems. Has this reliance on local level-improvisation changed under Xi Jinping in recent years? Has this model been applied to battling COVID?
期刊介绍:
Since its inception in 1968, Polity has been committed to the publication of scholarship reflecting the full variety of approaches to the study of politics. As journals have become more specialized and less accessible to many within the discipline of political science, Polity has remained ecumenical. The editor and editorial board welcome articles intended to be of interest to an entire field (e.g., political theory or international politics) within political science, to the discipline as a whole, and to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Scholarship of this type promises to be highly "productive" - that is, to stimulate other scholars to ask fresh questions and reconsider conventional assumptions.