"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)

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)

This much-needed new textbook introduces readers to the development of China’s Welfare policies since its conception of an open-door policy in 1978. Setting our basic concepts and issues, including key items and the process of policy making, it overcomes a major barrier to understanding Chinese social policy. The book explores in detail the five key policy areas of employment, ...(展开全部)

The 1949 Communist Revolution marked a period of earthshaking change in China. Political, economic, ideological, and cultural movements set into motion came to galvanize the country, culminating in dramatic social transformations at all levels but also in the persecution of hundreds of thousands of the country’s citizens. Based on normally inaccessible records of confessions, i...(展开全部)

Few doubt that China wants to be a major economic and military power on the world stage. To achieve this ambitious goal, however, the PRC leadership knows that China must first become an advanced information-based society. But does China have what it takes to get there? Are its leaders prepared to make the tough choices required to secure China’s cyber future? Or is there a fun...(展开全部)

Greg Austin is leader of the Policy Innovation Unit at the East-West Institute and the author of several highly regarded books on international security.

As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade-particularly in public health -so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Ichiro Kawachi, a widely respected leader in the field, and 21 contributors (including physicians, economists, and public health experts) discuss the theoretical origins of social capital, the strengths ...(展开全部)

美国西雅图华盛顿大学教授，还著有《中华人民共和国基本手册》、《共产党中国的政治参与》等。 美国弗吉尼亚大学政府和外交事务系教授，还著有《共产党国家的开放与外交政策改革》、《从历史眼光看当代中国政治》、《媒体与中国大众》和《毛泽东政治思想的基础》等。