Understanding Local Agency in China’s Policy Reform

Xiaoye She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at California State University San Marcos, USA.

• Chapter 1. Social Policy Reform and Local Agency in China.- Chapter 2. Authoritarian State, Growth Strategies, and Subnational Welfare Politics.- Chapter 3. The Pro-Growth National Reforms: State-led Commodification before 2000s.- Chapter 4. The Return of the State? The New Reforms and Changing Local Agency.- Chapter 5. Local Agency in Healthcare: Limits of Fragmented Universalism.- Chapter 6. Local Agency in Affordable Housing: Asset-Based Welfare or Public Rental?- Chapter 7. Local Agency in Old-Age Care: Articulating State, Society and Family.- Chapter 8. State Responsibility or Societal Participation? The Future of Authoritarian Social Policies.