How can protests influence policymaking in a repressive dictatorship? Responsive Authoritarianism in China sheds light on this important question through case studies of land takings and demolitions - two of the most explosive issues in contemporary China. In the early 2000s, landless farmers and evictees unleashed waves of disruptive protests. Surprisingly, the Chinese governm...(展开全部)

How can protests influence policymaking in a repressive dictatorship? Responsive Authoritarianism in China sheds light on this important question through case studies of land takings and demolitions - two of the most explosive issues in contemporary China. In the early 2000s, landless farmers and evictees unleashed waves of disruptive protests. Surprisingly, the Chinese governm...(展开全部)

"Why would authoritarian leaders expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? What are the distributive features and implications of social welfare expansion in an authoritarian country? How do authoritarian leaders design and enforce social welfare expansion in a decentralized multilevel governance setting? This book identifies the trade-off authoritarian...(展开全部)

"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organizat ion chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Easter...(展开全部)

"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organizat ion chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Easter...(展开全部)

AIR FORCE, MARINES, NAVY, COAST GUARD, ARMY Five sweet romantic stories delving into the world of Special Operations from authors whose family and friends are part of the military community. The stories--MISSION MISTLETOE, CHRISTMAS TO THE RESCUE, and THE STOCKING--will bring intrigue, merriment, and joy while TIED WITH A BOW and ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A MARINE will engage...(展开全部)

理查德·R,托尼，英国著名社会经济史家，社会批评家。著有《贪婪的社会》、《宗教与资本主义的兴起》等。

This book explores the key ideas and the key people who were responsible for the development of China’s economy from 1949 through 2016. It discusses how economic policy evolved, how economic policy was formulated and how the role of economists in decision making evolved. It considers the interplay between ideological and practical questions, provides biographical details of key...(展开全部)

This book explores the key ideas and the key people who were responsible for the development of China’s economy from 1949 through 2016. It discusses how economic policy evolved, how economic policy was formulated and how the role of economists in decision making evolved. It considers the interplay between ideological and practical questions, provides biographical details of key...(展开全部)

China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reenterin...(展开全部)