Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Chinese Social Organizations in Development

3. The Role and Behaviour of Chinese Social Organizations in Africa

4. Practical Implications

5. Theoretical Implications

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Public Sphere

3. The Role of the State

4. Social Organizations

5. Final Words

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Gender and Ethnic Variances

3. Explaining Variances: Structural Changes

4. Explaining Variances: Interactional Effects

5. Explaining Variances: Individual Preferences

6. Ethnic Minority Management

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The First (and Last?) Liberal Age

3. Merging Eastern and Western Philosophy

4. Period of Transition (1978-1997)

5. Period of Transition (1997-2012)

6. Current and Future Prospects

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Popular Accountability

3. Autocratic Resilience

4. Importance of Popular Accountability

5. The Social Contract in a Mature Communist Regime

6. Public Opinion

7. Citizen Complaints

8. A New Social Contract?

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. NGOs Sources of Power

3. NGOs Main Functions

4. NGOs Dilemmas

5. The Chinese Context

6. Neo-Institutional Theory

7. The Institutional Environment

8. ‘Competition’ with the State

9. Epistemic Awareness

10. Final Words

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Governed Market Theory

3. Governed Interdependence Theory

4. Bureaucratic Structure of Coordination

5. High Quality Bureaucrats

6. Final Words

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. State Corporatism

3. Interest Politics vs State Corporatism

4. Developmental State vs State Corporatism

5. Corporatism in the Chinese Context

6. Tacit and Overt Sanctioning

7. The Local Corporatist State

8. Final Words

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Characteristics of China’s Leninist Polity

4. Can China Support this Political System? 

5. Expressions of Discontent

6. The Need for Reforms

7. The Impact of Reforms

8. Final Words

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Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Brief History (1840-1910)

3. Brief History (1911-1949)

4. Brief History (1949-1978)

5. Brief History (1978-2012)

6. Lessons Learned

7. Final Words

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