China after Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?

Halpern, Nina P.; McCormick, Barrett L.; Unger, Jonathan

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“…In classic comparative politics literature, corporatism refers to a system of interest representation in which interests are vertically organized into peak associations that limit and institutionalize the participation of key groups in the policy process (Schmitter, 1974). In the Chinese context, corporatism refers to “a mechanism through which the state's grip could be lessened” but not released altogether (Unger & Chan, 1996, p. 105). The layering and rules‐creation of the NGO sector demonstrate deliberate caution to preserve party‐state dominance over the growing new sector.…”

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Explaining the expansion of the NGO sector in China: Through the lense of adaptive corporatist governance

Song

2024

Asian Politics and Policy

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What explains the exponential growth of the number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in China during the recent decades? Moving beyond the extant literature that focuses on the strategic relationship between NGOs and the local state, this article argues that the growth can be also attributed to the central state which has focused on the promotion of different types of NGOs throughout time. The proactive role of the central state has become more conspicuous under the Xi Jinping administration where the party‐state plays a more active role in maneuvering the growth of a service‐oriented third sector. This adaptive strategy has led to the counterintuitive phenomenon of an increase in institutional space for NGOs in authoritarian China, especially the social service‐oriented NGOs in recent years. This article draws from theories of institutional change to explain the process through which the central state has expanded institutional space for NGOs throughout time.

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Explaining the expansion of the NGO sector in China: Through the lense of adaptive corporatist governance

Song

2024

Asian Politics and Policy

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“…These entrepreneurial strategies have also been adopted by the Chinese state. Scholarly work on China's urbanism is associated with market-oriented reforms since the late 1970s (Unger and McCormick, 1996). From 1949 to 1978, the Chinese Communist Party adopted a centrally planned economy framework based on Marxist ideology.…”

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The ‘medical city’ and China’s entrepreneurial state: Spatial production under rising consumerism in healthcare

Nie

2022

Urban Studies

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The role of hospitals has significantly changed over the past decades and the ‘medical city’ has emerged as a new urban phenomenon in China. However, research on the significance of the medical city to China’s urbanism is limited. This paper situates China’s medical city in the theory of state entrepreneurialism and rethinks consumerism in healthcare. Particularly focussing on the state–market and production–consumption dyads, the paper argues that the state has engineered the institutional and market legitimacy for the rise of consumerism in healthcare and allows the medical city to capitalise on the provision and consumption of high-end healthcare services to advance the healthcare reform and capture economic opportunities. This argument is substantiated by a case study on the Shanghai New Hongqiao International Medical Center, which focusses on the public–private partnerships in the medical city. It is found that while the production of the medical city is based on private sector participation, the state’s presence is diffused in the governance of the medical city through public–private partnerships, which reflect the characteristics of state entrepreneurialism. The findings add to the theory of China’s urbanism with new sets of materials and render important implications for the urban future in China.

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China after Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?

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Explaining the expansion of the NGO sector in China: Through the lense of adaptive corporatist governance

Explaining the expansion of the NGO sector in China: Through the lense of adaptive corporatist governance

The ‘medical city’ and China’s entrepreneurial state: Spatial production under rising consumerism in healthcare

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