Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, The Logic of Governance in China develops a unified theoretical framework to explain how China's centralized political system maintains governance and how this process produces recognizable policy cycles that are obstacles to bureaucratic rationalization, professionalism, and rule of law. The book is unique for the overarching framewo...(展开全部)

Rapid social economic changes, the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, or even economic liberalization can lead to political instability and the collapse of authoritarian regimes. Despite experiencing all of these unprecedented changes in the past forty years, China under the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership has so far successfully transformed and improve...(展开全部)

Xiaobo Lü , University of California, Berkeley Changdong Zhang , Peking University, Beijing

赵树凯，1959年11月生，山东莱西人。文学学士（山东大学），法学硕士（中央党校），法学博士（中国人民大学）。研究员，国务院颁发政府特殊津贴专家。中共中央政治局第三十六次集体学习主讲人（2006年11月）。现任国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任。 1982年8月起在中共中央书记处农村政策研究室（国务院农村发展研究中心）工作，任秘书、助理研究员。1990年8月起在国务院发展研究中心工作，任助理研究员、副研究员、研究员，国务院发展研究中心农村部组织研究室主任、中共中央文献编辑委员会《万里文选》编辑组编辑、河北省涿鹿县委副书记、中国发展研究基金会副秘书长、国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任，[1] 兼任中国农村劳动力资源开发研究会秘书长。曾任世界银行和英国国际发展部中国农村发展项目顾问，联合国开发计划署中国农村发展项目顾问，亚洲基金会基层治理项目顾问。1995年获...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·G·马奇（James G.March），斯坦福大学的管理学弗莱德.H·梅芮尔教授，以及政治学和社会学教授。他除了于专业期刊上发表多篇论文外，还在组织与行为学领域出版了九部专著。 约翰·P·奥尔森（Johan P.Olsen），挪威卑尔根大学的政治学教授，他出版过九部专著，并在众多学术研究协会和政治组织中担任顾问。

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fi...(展开全部)

Dr. Jie Yang, Associate Professor of anthropology, received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 2006. Dr. Yang’s research is at the intersection of two primary areas: linguistic anthropology and China studies. In the first area, she is interested in the analysis of how power and ideologies are embedded in and work through language and how ideologies interp...(展开全部)

Major figures of twentieth-century philosophy were enthralled by the revolution in formal logic, and many of their arguments are based on novel mathematical discoveries. Hilary Putnam claimed that the Löwenheim-Skølem theorem refutes the existence of an objective, observer-independent world; Bas van Fraassen claimed that arguments against empiricism in philosophy of science are...(展开全部)

Logic deals with the inevitable - those consequences which follow inescapably from a given set of premisses. This fact has caused it to be seen as different from other more self-questioning branches of philosophy. In this book, Stephen Read sets out to rescue logic from its undeserved reputation as an inflexible, dogmatic discipline by demonstrating that its technicalities and ...(展开全部)