Showing papers by "Thomas Heberer published in 2011"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the implementation of environmental policies at the local level, and argue that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at local levels to manoeuver and bargain with those on higher levels for flexible adjustment of implementation policies according to local conditions.
Abstract: This article describes how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the implementation of environmental policies at the local level. It is argued that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at the local levels to manoeuver and bargain with those on higher levels for flexible adjustment of implementation policies according to local conditions. However, decentralisation is accompanied by significant institutional changes in the structure of intergovernmental communication, incentives and control. Accordingly, decentralisation in China exhibits a specific design which leaves space for divergent local environmental policies while also engendering “grass-roots mechanisms”. On the whole, this new institutional setting benefits the implementation of environmental policies.
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28 Apr 2011TL;DR: In this article, political innovation without Democratization, social control, social fragmentation, and the reimposition of state power are discussed, and new schemes of social security are proposed.
Abstract: 1 Introduction: Political Innovation without Democratization 2 Social Control, Social Fragmentation, and the Reimposition of State Power 3 Enhancing Infrastructural Power: Shequ Organization 4 Legitimating Narratives 5 Shequ Governance 6 New Schemes of Social Security: Urban Neighbourhood Communities as Institutions of Output Legitimacy 7 Attitudes 8 Conclusion
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The traditional approach to studying the politics of a region is to focus on events, personalities, issues, and the mechanics of the political process as discussed by the authors, which is not the case here.
Abstract: The traditional approach to studying the politics of a region is to focus on events, personalities, issues – the mechanics of the political process. What this volume looks to do is to step back and ...
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TL;DR: In this article, environmental governance in China: New Developments and Perspectives, the authors present a review of the state-of-the-art environmental governance practices in China.
Abstract: Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2011: Environmental Governance in China: New Developments and Perspectives.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, Assmann et al. schurte das Interesse an geregelten Handelskontakten, die als ein Grund interessse der heutigen deutschen Ausenpolitik gegenuber China betrachtet werden konnen.
Abstract: China fasziniert und beflugelt bereits seit der Aufklarung die Phantasien europaischer Denker und Handler aufgrund seiner jahrtausende alten Traditionen, der langen Geschichte sowie seiner Bevolkerungsgrose (Hsia 1985; Mackerras 1989; Assmann 2008). Gerade in jungerer Zeit wurden besonders der mit Chinas Bevolkerungsreichtum verbundene riesige potentielle Markt und die ab 1978 eingeleiteten Reformen in der deutschen Offentlichkeit als grose Chance fur die eigene, exportorientierte Wirtschaft wahrgenommen. Dies schurte das Interesse an geregelten Handelskontakten, die als ein Grundinteresse der heutigen deutschen Ausenpolitik gegenuber China betrachtet werden konnen.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The 2008 Environmental Performance Index Report of Yale University, which evaluates indicators like people's health, air and water pollution, ranks China as 104 of 149 countries according to the World Bank, the majority of the world's most polluted cities are located in China as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: During the last decades China has faced serious environmental degradations due to extensive economic development In particular China’s large emissions of greenhouse gases have raised international concerns about the environmental situation in China The country faces a large amount of international criticisms due to its poor environmental performance and is perceived as one of the most polluted countries in the world The 2008 Environmental Performance Index Report of Yale University, which evaluates indicators like people’s health, air and water pollution, ranks China as 104 of 149 countries According to the World Bank, the majority of the world’s most polluted cities are located in China (Klein 2004: 21)
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