Pub Date : 2020-07-31DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1799641
Jessica C. Teets, Nele Noesselt
On 31 October 2019 the CCP’s fourth plenum concluded with some reflections on governance (innovation) and the role of the Party in the PRC’s ongoing reform and modernization process. The final comm...
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Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1771809
Jian Lin, Chen Liu, Wen Liu
Abstract The improvement of Natural Resource Governance systems plays a crucial role in the building of an ecological civilization in the new era. This study looked into the three major objects and elements of Natural Resource Governance, namely natural resources and the supervision of natural resources, ecology and ecological protection, and environment and environmental governance. It identified two sets of logical relationship lines: ‘carrier supervision and product supervision’ and ‘prevention beforehand and remedy afterward.’ The logical relations between the three elements are as follows: (1) the coordinated expression and legal basis are different for the three elements; (2) the supervision of natural resources and ecological protection are similar in terms of management essence, object scope, and behavioral orientation; (3) the supervision of natural resources and environmental governance have different focal points with regard to management connotation, object scope, behavioral orientation, and technical measures; and (4) in the specific regulatory process, constructive ecological protection is similar to pollution control.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796406
Jeng-Fang Ting, Shanwen Guo, Lingxin Liao
Abstract Chinese homeowner associations (HAs) actions to protect rights have attracted scholarly attention due to beliefs that a new type of local governance or public sphere was being created from bottom-up representation in recent years. However, the current literature studies the impact of actions to protect the rights of HAs on community governance from different angles, but none have tried to analyze some structural factors that might have conditioned these. In general, they are descriptive or prescriptive, behavior-oriented, model-bounded, and case-specific. As a result, they are short of predictability or generalizability. This essay examines the external and internal structural factors for actions to protect rights and combines them as a politico-economic reinterpretation with a focus on the internal governance structure. It argues, the external environment of actions to protect the rights of HAs exhibits a ‘political opportunity structure’, which has fueled the uprising of a rights-protecting movement. Meanwhile, the internal structure shows that the nature of an ‘incomplete contract’ for property transfer between developers and homeowners is a condition of the development of community governance and its performance. When combined together, this internal-external nexus leads to different explanations and to some possible solutions to improve governance for commercial housing communities in urban China.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-25DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796163
J. Migdal
Abstract Authority is at the core of the human condition. In every realm of existence—social life, politics, economics—some people exercise authority over others. The exercising of authority comes in many different guises and at many different levels of human society. The epitome in the breadth and depth of exercising authority is the modern state. In some ways, it attempts to usurp the authority of all other social organizations. The topic of states exercising authority seems, at first glance, to be self-evident. After all, states are the most powerful organizations on earth. They are replete with agencies and bureaus, departments and ministries, not to speak of armies and police forces. Yet, most states run into difficulties in exercising power—implementing policies and succeeding in changing people’s behavior. This article analyzes the reasons states experience such difficulties.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-22DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1796160
Ronghui Yang, K. Horstman, B. Penders
Abstract Incessant food safety scandals in China have given rise to a loss of public trust in food safety, stimulating a series of studies focussing on food safety governance, accountability, and trust restoration. Against this backdrop, Chinese scholars are keen to reflect on different strategies for ensuring food safety public accountability and credibility, presenting different perspectives on issues like responsibility, trust, risk communication, and transparency. In this paper, we aim to get more in-depth insight into how Chinese scholarly debates co-construct public accountability for food safety as a public issue. We selected 51 articles from 10,790 candidates drawn from four Chinese academic databases for content analysis. Drawing from political theories on public accountability as well as science and technology studies, the analysis shows that arguments for a specific public accountability model (more or less centralised, more or less stakeholder participation) are intertwined with the specific role of scientific expertise (more or less authoritative, more or less democratising). As such, the analysis shows how scholarly debates on public accountability for food safety in China co-construct a public forum for discussing supervision and accountability, risk assessment, and transparency.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-15DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1791505
Paola Pasquali
Abstract This paper aims at providing a general picture of how the citizenship migration nexus currently unfolds in China and in the European Union (EU). Although China is a nation state and the EU is a supranational entity, both entities are characterised by internal and external politico-legal borders delineating two self-contained migration areas. Drawing on a definition of citizenship which transcends its usual national connotation, this paper will review and compare how different migration categories available to individuals on the move (citizens and non-citizens) come with differential accesses to citizenship rights within the two contexts. The comparison will show that in spite of different approaches towards irregular migration, welfare and humanitarian issues, current categories of migration within these two migration regimes converge in the way in which they grant differential access to citizenship rights based on the (assumed) economic worth of individuals on the move. The final part of this paper reflects upon the lessons that each system could draw from the other and postulates such convergence as an indicator of the correlation between the granting of citizenship rights and neoliberal imperatives in the governance of migration worldwide.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-06DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2020.1785142
L. Yueh
Abstract An enduring paradox of China’s remarkable economic growth is the lack of a well-established legal system. By drawing on the credibility thesis, this paper proposes that legal and economic reforms give rise to, and reinforce, the other and the market is underpinned by evolving institutions that are shaped by the expectations of the actors in the economy. It is thus not the form of institutions but their function that is more important in assessing institutional performance. A comparative examination of the USA at a similar stage of legal-institutional development to China provides support for an evolutionary, endogenous process. This institutional analysis will focus on key issues of economic legislation, such as corporate law, patent law and securities. Analyzing the relationship as complementary processes can help explain the paradox of strong economic growth within an under-developed system of law with potential, critical implications for institutional development in other countries.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1638687
Bingdao Zheng, Yanfeng Gu, Hanbin Zhu
Abstract This paper studies how land tenure arrangements will shape China’s rural land transfer market and labor allocation. Based on data from the Chinese Household Income Project (2002) and the China Family Panel Studies (2010 and 2012), we use fixed effect models and difference-in-differences method to investigate the effects of the implementation of Rural Land Contracting Law on villagers’ behavioral patterns in land transfer and rural-to-urban migration. Our empirical evidence shows that the introduction of Rural Land Contracting Law led peasants to actively rent out their contracted land, significantly increasing their agricultural income, and thus reducing the rural-to-urban migration. These findings demonstrate the ‘push and pull’ migration theory in the Chinese context, and have important policy implications for the ongoing reform of Chinese rural land property rights.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2018.1443758
W. Dang
Abstract To meet the public requirements for environmental democracy in the world, many international environmental public participation programmes have been developed by adopting the Local Agenda 21 in Rio 1992. At present, some programmes stress the importance of sharing practical lessons on environmental democracy by comparing participation policies in different countries. However, few academic studies analyze how a country’s culture affects environmental public participation. The goal of this paper is to describe how culture shapes environmental public participation by answering two questions: how do certain cultural factors categorize each country according to a nation being egalitarian, fatalist, individualist, and hierarchical in the Cultural Theory (CT) model, and how do the features of CT in each country explain their own environmental participation. This paper looks at three cultural factors—religious, democratic, and gender culture—and analyzes the environmental participation from three cases. This analysis indicates that these three cultural factors categorize both China and Italy under hierarchism in the CT model, while the Netherlands is categorized under individualism and egalitarianism. Italy also has features of fatalism. In addition, different features of CT in the three countries explain the diversity of forms of environmental participation in their contexts. This paper specifically contributes to the analysis of the potential cultural uncertainties in studied countries.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2019.1652492
Iselin Stensdal
Abstract Piloting has become a prevalent feature of Chinese politics. However, there is a gap in classification of pilot types. This article offers an initial ordering of pilot types, categorized on the basis of institutional dynamics, changes, and staying power of institutions; and how pilots are handled by the local government. Government–business interactions are seen as an indicator of the government’s handling of the pilot. Three pilot types are proposed: perfunctory, policy-focused, and goal-oriented. One case is examined in depth: the Shanghai carbon-market emissions trading scheme pilot, from the time it was announced in November 2011, to the end of the first compliance cycle in June 2014. The Shanghai pilot was arguably a goal-oriented one: the local government put considerable effort into ensuring positive results, by allocating resources and interacting with the enrolled companies. The case-study draws on written sources such as government notices, regulations and news, as well as on semi-structured interviews conducted in 2015.
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