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C ivil S ociety and G overnance in C hina C ivil S ociety and G overnance in C hina Edited by Jianxing Yu and Sujian Guo CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE IN CHINA Copyright © Jianxing Yu and Sujian Guo, 2012. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012978-0-230-34096-1 All rights reserved. A prior version of Thomas Heberer’s “Creating civil-society structures top-down?” originally appeared as “China: Creating civil-society structures top-down?” in Changing Images of Civil Society: From Protest to Governance , Bruno Jobert and Beate Kohler-Koch (eds.), Routledge: London and New York, 2008, 87–104. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-34376-8 ISBN 978-1-137-09249-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137092496 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Civil society and governance in China / edited by Jianxing Yu and Sujian Guo. p. cm. 1. Civil society—China. 2. Public administration—China—Citizen participation. 3. Associations, institutions, etc.—China. I. Yu, Jianxing. II. Guo, Sujian, 1957– JQ1516.C57 2012 300.951—dc23 2011037116 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: March 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 C ontents List of Figures and Tables vii List of Contributors ix Introduction: The Relationship between Civil Society and Governance in China 1 Jianxing Yu and Sujian Guo Part I Governance and Civil Society in Theoretical Perspectives 1 Governance as Political Theory 17 B. Guy Peters 2 The Tension between Governance and State-Building 39 Jianxing Yu and Ziying He 3 Creating Civil-Society Structures Top-Down? 63 Thomas Heberer 4 Industry Associations’ Participation in Public Policymaking from the Perspective of State-Society Relations: A Conceptual Framework and Comparative Case Studies 85 Hua Jiang, Jianmin Zhang, and Ying Zhou 5 Social Enterprise in China 111 Wolfgang Bielefeld and Lijun He Part II Civil Society and Governance Practice in China 6 Growing out of Participation: Finding the Developmental Path of China’s Civil Society 133 Jianxing Yu and Jun Zhou vi Contents 7 Institutional Barriers for the Development of Civil Society in Current China 157 He Zengke 8 Recall Behavior and Right Remedy: The Internal Logic of Institutional Change—A Case Study of Three Social Organizations 175 Jialiang Xu 9 Transforming State and Citizen through Community Building: A View from Zhejiang 189 Kristen Parris 10 Optimal Size of Business Associations under the Principle of “One Industry, One Association” 215 Bin He Index 233 Figures and Tables Figures 4.1 An analytical framework of public-policy participation by industry associations. 96 5.1 Relative placement of social enterprise for China with regard to market, state, civil society, and international aid. 121 6.1 The administrative structure of the Chamber of Commerce of Wenzhou. 143 9.1 Shequ Residents Committee, Zhejiang Province (Directly Elected). 198 10.1 Relation between organizational size and the provision of collective goods. 222 Tables 5.1 Comparative overview of social enterprise in seven world regions 120 6.1 Results for the question: “Evaluate the overall performance of the Chamber of Commerce of Wenzhou regarding its functions” 145 6.2 Results for the question: “Vertically, please compare the performance of the Chamber of Commerce of Wenzhou over the years” 145 8.1 Rights model and nonrights model of institutional change 178 viii Figures and Tables 10.1 Difference of sizes between the small- and large-scale groups 225 10.2 Difference of the views on the effectiveness of collective action between small- and large-scale groups 2 25 10.3 Difference in the number of public welfare activities between the small- and large-scale groups 2 26 10.4 Difference in the number of policy proposals between the small- and large-scale groups 2 26 10.5 Difference of the values of indicators between the small- and large-scale groups in different cities 2 27 10.6 Indicators of contribution rate per member 2 28 10.7 Indicators of contribution rate per member in different cities 2 29 Contributors Wolfgang B ielefeld is a professor of Public and Nonprofit Management and Philanthropic Studies in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in Indianapolis. He also holds appointments in the Sociology Department and at the Center on Philanthropy at that university. His research inter- ests include the dynamics of urban nonprofit sectors, the relations between nonprofit organizations and their environments, nonprofit social entrepreneurship and enterprise, and the involvement of faith- based organizations in service delivery. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, VOLUNTAS, Social Forces, Administration & Society, Policy Studies Review, Policy Studies Journal, and A merican Behavioral Scientist. Sujian Guo is a distinguished professor of Fudan University, and associate dean of the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University. He is also a tenured professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for US-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University. He is editor-in-chief of the J ournal of Chinese Political Science , associate editor-in-chief of the F udan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, series editor of Rowman & Littlefield-Lexington’s Chinese political studies, and former president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies. He received his MA degree from Peking University and PhD from the University of Tennessee. His research interests include Chinese/Asian politics, US-China relations, communist and postcommunist studies, democratic transitions, and the political economy of East and Southeast Asia. He has published more than 40 academic articles both in English and Chinese. His authored and edited books include Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China (2011); C hina’s Search for Good Governance (2011); C hina’s Environmental Crisis: Domestic and Global Political Responses and
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