China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime'

China, like many authoritarian regimes, struggles with the tension between the need to foster economic development by empowering local officials and the regime'

This book develops an informational theory to account for the coexistence of China’s exceptionally resilient authoritarianism and its high decentralization. T

This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that