Social Transformation and State Governance in China

Xu Xianglin, a professor, Ph.D supervisor  and vice president  in School of Government of Peking University. He was born in 1955 in Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province. In 1982, he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Laws from the School of International  Studies of Peking University and became a teacher there. In 1987, he went to study in University of California, Irvine, under the supervision of David Easton, an American expert in Politics, and received his Doctorate in Politics in 1995. He took on teaching in Peking University in 1996, gave lectures like “Politics and Government Process in China”, “Chinese Political and Economic System Reform”, “Analysis of Public Policy”, etc. His research mainly focus on Comparative Politics, Chinese government and politics, and public policy. 

Chapter 1：Transformation Crises and Adaptive Governance in China: A Historical Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 2: From Political Development Theory to Policy Process Theory.- Chapter 3: China’s Incremental Political Reform Based on Political Stability.- Chapter 4: Political Reform Policy: Goal-Setting and the Choice of the Tactics.- Chapter 5: Orientation of the Political System Reform and Policy Choice After the 18th National People’s Congress of the CPC.- Chapter 6: The Rise of Technocrats: Bureaucratic Elite Transformation in Post-Mao China.- Chapter 7: Experimental Reform of Grassroots Democracy Under the Party-controlled Cadre System.- Chapter 8: Village Governance in China under the Complexities of the “Three Rural Issues”.- Chapter 9: Theoretical Misunderstandings and Space for the Development of NGOs.- Chapter 10: The Relationship Between Government and Enterprises in the Reform of State-owned Enterprises.- Chapter 11: Institutional Restriction and System Innovation in the Reform of the Administrative Examination and Approval System.- Chapter 12 Structural Restraints and Institutional Innovation in Local Governance.