Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Policy-making and policy implementation -- v. 2. Political economy -- v. 3. Political sociology -- v. 4. Democratization.

v. 1. Policy-making and policy implementation. The modernization of factionalism in Chinese politics / Lowell Dittmer and Yu-Shan Wu -- Factions and the politics of guanxi : paradoxes in Chinese administrative and political behaviour / Lucian W. Pye -- Factionalism : a new institutionalist restatement / Andrew J. Nathan and Kellee S. Tsai -- The dynamics of elite politics during the Jiang era / David Shambaugh -- Trends in the study of political elites and institutions in the PRC / Avery Goldstein -- The "fragmented authoritarianism" model and its limitations / Kenneth G. Lieberthal -- Decision rules : delegation by consensus / Susan L. Shirk -- Chinese people's congresses and legislative embeddedness : understanding early organizational development / Kevin J. O'Brien -- Institutional reform and the bianzhi system in China / Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard -- Information, bureaucracy, and economic reform in China and the Soviet Union / Yasheng Huang -- Partial reform and the Chinese bureaucracy in the post-Mao era / Xueguang Zhou -- Strengthening central CCP control of leadership selection : the 1990 nomenklatura / John P. Burns -- China's de facto federalism / Yongnian Zheng -- Towards a non-zero-sum interactive framework of spatial politics : the case of centre-province in contemporary China / Linda Chelan Li -- The emergence of the campaign to open up the West : ideological formation, central decision-making and the role of the provinces / Heike Holbig -- Taxation without representation : peasants, the central and the local states in reform China / Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü -- Rural political networks beyond the state / Lynn White.

v. 2. Political economy. Federalism, Chinese style : the political basis for economic success / Gabriella Montinola, Yingyi Qian, and Barry R. Weingast -- Fiscal reform and the economic foundations of local state corporatism in China / Jean C. Oi -- Privatizing rural China : insider privatization, innovative contracts and the performance of township enterprises / Hongbin Li and Scott Rozelle -- Did government decentralization cause China's economic miracle? / Hongbin Cai and Daniel Treisman -- Keeping up with the Jones' : decentralization, policy imitation, and industrial development in China / Eric Thun -- Quest for constitutional justification : privatization with Chinese characteristics / Qingjiang Kong -- Moving beyond transition in China : financial reform and the political economy of declining growth / Edward S. Steinfeld -- The institutional process of market clientelism : guanxi and private business in a south China city / David L. Wank -- Globalization, international coalitions, and domestic reform / Shaun Breslin -- Changing concepts of corruption in Communist China : early 1950s versus early 1980s / Lynn T. White III -- The intensification of corruption in China / Andrew Wedeman -- Booty socialism, bureau-preneurs, and the state in transition : organizational corruption in China / Xiaobu Lu -- The illicit asset stripping of Chinese state firms / X.L. Ding -- China in transition : the political foundations of incremental reform / Steven M. Goldstein -- Economic transformation and state rebuilding in China / Dali L. Yang -- The business of governing business in China : institutions and norms of the emerging regulatory state / Margaret M. Pearson -- Adaptive informal institutions and endogenous institutional change in China / Kellee S. Tsai.

v. 3. Political sociology. Becoming dagongmei (working girls) : the politics of identity and difference in reform China / Pun Ngai -- Labour market reform and the plight of the laid-off proletariat / Dorothy J. Solinger -- The victory of materialism : aspirations to join China's urban moneyed classes and the commercialization of education / Stanley Rosen -- Capitalists without a class : political diversity among private entrepreneurs in China / Kellee S. Tsai --China coast identities : regional, national, and global / Lynn White and Li Cheng -- Unorganized interests and collective action in Communist China / Xueguang Zhou -- Mounting challenges to governance in China : surveying collective protestors, religious sects and criminal organizations / Jae Ho Chung, Hongyi Lai and Ming Xia -- Environmental protests in rural China / Jun Jing -- House church movements and religious freedom in China / May M.C. Cheng -- Popular contention and its impact in rural China / Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li -- Information technology, public space, and collective action in China / Yongnian Zheng and Guoguang Wu -- Challenging the mandate of heaven : popular protest in modern China / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Between the state and labour : the conflict of Chinese trade unions' double identity in market reform / Feng Chen -- An emerging environmental movement in China? / Phillip Stalley and Dongning Yang -- The reform of social welfare in China / Mark Selden and Laiyin You -- Political and social trends in the post-Deng urban China : crisis or stability? / Wenfang Tang.

v. 4. Democratization. Accommodating 'democracy' in a one-party state : introducing village elections in China / Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li -- Village committee elections in China : institutionalist tactics for democracy / Tianjian Shi -- To vote or not to vote : an analysis of peasants' participation in Chinese village elections / Yang Zhou and Jie Chen -- Democracy, community, trust : the impact of elections in rural China / Melanie Manion -- Women's political participation in china : in whose interests elections? / Jude Howell -- Law and development of constitutional democracy : is China a problem case? / Randall Peerenboom -- Citizens v. mandarins : administrative litigation in China / Minxin Pei -- Managed participation in China / Yongshun Cai -- The autonomy of Chinese NGOs : a new perspective / Yiyi Lu -- Organizational involvement and political participation in China / Gang Guo -- Cooptation and corporatism in China : the logic of party adaptation / Bruce J. Dickson -- Institution building and democratization in China / Joseph Fewsmith -- Development and democracy : are they compatible in China? / Yongnian Zheng -- "Reform and openness" : why China's economic reforms have delayed democracy / Mary E. Gallagher -- Legitimacy crisis in China / Vivienne Shue -- Casting a Chinese "democracy" movement : the roles of students, workers, and entrepreneurs / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Mutual empowerment of state and peasantry : grassroots democracy in rural China? / Xu Wang.