A Phenomenology of Institutions

Relationality and Governance in China and Beyond
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-66735-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalgam of socialist, capitalist, corporatist, and pluralist characteristics, China's systems of governance defy classification using extant categories in the institutionalist literature. What, after all, is a socialist market system?

A Phenomenology of Institutions begins with the problem of describing emergent institutional phenomena using conventional typologies. Constructing a new descriptive framework for rendering new, hybrid, and flexible institutional designs, Raul Lejano, Jia Guo, Hongping Lian, and Bo Yin propose new descriptors, involving concepts of autopoeisis, textuality, and relationality, that might better describe new and emergent models of governance. The authors illustrate the utility of this framework with a number of case studies, each dealing with a different aspect of Chinese legal and civic institutions and comparing these with 'Western' models.

This book will be a valuable resource for institutional scholars in the fields of public policy, political science, organization studies, public administration, and international development, studying new and emergent forms of governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lejano, Raul

Guo, Jia

Lian, Hongping

Yin, Bo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Introduction: The Phenomenology of Institutional Innovation 2. Developing New Modes of Institutional Description 3. Governing by Metaphor: The Intertextuality of Institutional Life in China 4. Relationality in Rural Property Regimes 5. Relational Institutions and ENGOs in China: From Nu River to Changzhou 6. Multiple Legal Traditions, Legal Pluralism and Institutional Innovation: The Chinese Criminal Procedure System in Contrast 7. Conclusion: China, The Looking-Glass

Über Autor(innen)

Raul Lejano is Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation Education at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. His primary areas of scholarship are environmental policy, policy analysis, and institutional analysis Prior to NYU, he was also a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Irvine, and The University of Hong Kong. Most recently, he was a visiting lecturer at Beijing Normal University.

Jia Guo is an associate professor and assistant dean in the School of Government at Beijing Normal University. Her current research and teaching interests focus on the policy process of Environmental Governance as well as NGO development in China. A particular interest is the changing nature of civil society and its relationship to the state.

Hongping Lian is an assistant professor in the School of Government at Beijing Normal University, and the Vice Dean of the Academy of Government at the same institution. Her primary areas of scholarship are land policy and housing policy.

Bo Yin is an associate professor in the College for Criminal Law Science at Beijing Normal University. His primary areas are criminal justice, criminal procedure and legal theory.