The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country's equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China's central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that had gradually emerged in piecemeal fashion during the initial phases of economic liberalization. Major policy decisions during the focal period included adopting a single national pension plan for urban areas, standardizing unemployment insurance, (re)establishing nationwide rural health care coverage, opening urban education systems to children of rural migrants, introducing trilingual education policies in ethnic minority regions, expanding college enrolment, addressing the challenge of HIV/AIDS more comprehensively, and equalizing social welfare spending across provinces, among others. Unresolved is the direction of policy in the face of longer-term industrial and demographic trends---and the possibility of a chronically weak global economy. Chinese Social Policy in a Time of Transition offers scholars, practitioners, students, and policymakers a foundation from which to explore those issues based on a composite snapshot of Chinese social policy at its point of greatest maturation prior to the 2007 global crisis.
Edited by Douglas Besharov, Norman and Florence Brody Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, USA, and Karen Baehler, Scholar in Residence, School of Public Affairs, American University, USA
Douglas J. Besharov is the Norman and Florence Brody Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis, program evaluation, and performance management. He is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where he leads a program in international policy exchanges. In 2008, he was President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and is currently APPAM's International Conference Coordinator. Karen Baehler is Scholar in Residence at the American University School of Public Affairs and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Australia New Zealand School of Government. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of policy analysis in social and environmental policy. She holds a Ph.D. in Policy Sciences from the University of Maryland.
Contributors:
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Bob Adamson
Department of International Education and Lifelong Learning
Hong Kong Institute of Education
Hong Kong, China
Feng Anwei
School of Education
Bangor University
Bangor, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
Karen Baehler
Department of Public Administration and PolicySchool of Public Affairs
American University
Washington, DC
Douglas J. Besharov
School of Public Policy
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Mostaem Billah
Department of Geography
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Yanwei Chai
Department of Urban and Economic Geography
Peking University
Beijing, P.R. China
Juan Chen
Department of Applied Social Sciences
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong, China
Roger Detels
School of Public Health
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Martin Evans
Oxford Institute of Social Policy
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Barry L. Friedman
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts
Mary E. Gallagher
Department of Political Sciences
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Qin Gao
Graduate School of Social Service
Fordham University
Bronx, New York
Song Gao
China Academy of Public Finance and Public Policy
Central University of Finance and Economics
Beijing, China
Irwin Garfinkel
School of Social Work
Columbia University
New York, New York
Jing Guo
School of Social Work
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
Emily Hannum
Sociology Faculty
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Zhilin Liu
School of Pubblic Policy and Management
Tsinghua University
Beijing, P.R. China
Jonathan D. London
Department of Asian and International Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Xiangyi Meng
China Academy of Public Finance and Public Policy
Central University of Finance and Economics
Beijing, China
Li Qian,
School of Foreign Languages
Northwest Normal University
Lanzhou , P.R. China
Liu Quanguo
School of Foreign Languages
Northwest Normal University
Lanzhou , P.R. China
Mary Jane Rotheram
Center for HIV Identification,
Prevention and Treatment Services (CHIPTS)
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Josephine Smart
Department of Anthropology
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta Canada
Sheena G. Sullivan
National Centre for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention
Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
Beijing, China School of Public Health
University of California Los Angeles
School of Public Health
Los Angeles, California
Reeta Tremblay
Department of Political Science
University Of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Yu Wang
Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
Beijing, China
Zunyou Wu
National Centre for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention
Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
Beijing, China
School of Public Health
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xin Zhang
School of Public Administration and Policy
Renmin University
Beijing, China
Yuping Zhang
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
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评分这本《中国社会政策的转型时代》真是让人眼前一亮。作为一名长久关注中国社会发展的普通读者,我一直对政府在社会福利、教育、医疗以及养老保障等方面的举措抱有浓厚兴趣,但往往信息零散,难以形成系统性的认知。这本书恰好填补了这一空白。它不像那些枯燥的学术报告,而是用一种非常易于理解的语言,深入浅出地剖析了中国社会政策在过去几十年间所经历的深刻变革。从计划经济时代的单位制福利,到改革开放后的市场化导向,再到新时代以人民为中心的发展思想,作者都进行了详实的梳理和独到的解读。我尤其欣赏书中对不同政策出台背景、实施过程中的挑战以及对社会各阶层产生影响的细致描绘。它让我明白,看似简单的政策调整背后,往往牵涉着错综复杂的利益博弈、文化观念的变迁以及经济发展的驱动。读完后,我仿佛看到了一幅波澜壮阔的中国社会发展画卷,对中国社会的过去、现在和未来有了更清晰的认识。这本书对于任何想要深入了解当代中国社会运作机制的读者来说,都是一份不可多得的宝贵财富。
评分这本书《中国社会政策的转型时代》让我对“转型”这个词有了全新的理解。我以前总觉得转型只是一个宏观的概念,但通过这本书,我才意识到它具体体现在社会政策的每一个角落。比如,书中关于教育公平的论述,从城乡差距到区域差距,再到不同家庭背景对子女教育机会的影响,作者用详实的材料揭示了这些问题在转型期的复杂性。我印象深刻的是,书中不仅仅指出了问题,还探讨了政府为了解决这些问题所做的努力,以及这些努力在实践中遇到的阻碍。这种辩证的视角让我觉得非常可贵。它没有回避现实的困难,也没有过分夸大成就,而是以一种务实的态度,展现了中国社会政策在转型期所经历的挣扎与进步。阅读这本书,就像是在和一位非常有经验的观察者一起,深入中国社会的肌理,去理解那些驱动其变化的深层力量。它让我对中国社会的未来发展,多了一份理解,也多了一份期待。
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