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Negotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in China
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A notable feature of the reform programme sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been the expansion of social organizations as discussed by the authors, which has created an increased organizational sphere and social space in which to operate and to represent social interests, and to convey those interests into the policy-making process.Abstract:
One notable feature of the reform programme sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been the expansion of social organizations. With greater social space created by the reforms and with the state unable or unwilling to carry the same wide range of services and functions as before, organizations with varying degrees of autonomy from the party-state structures have been set up. They have been allowed or have created an increased organizational sphere and social space in which to operate and to represent social interests, and to convey those interests into the policy-making process. They not only liaise between state and society but also fulfil vital welfare functions that would otherwise go unserved.read more
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Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
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New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction
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In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which this experience can be described and understood in terms of the idea of ''civil society'' defined in sociological terms as the emergence of an autonomous sphere of voluntary associations capable of organizing the interests of emergent socioeconomic groups and counterbalancing the hitherto unchallenged dominance of the Marxist-Leninist state.
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Civil Society in China
Timothy Brook,B. Michael Frolic +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere as mentioned in this paper.