Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China.

Autorentext
JIANXING YU is Associate Dean and a Professor of the College of Public Administration and executive director of the Center for Public Policy at Zhejiang University, China.
SUJIAN GUO is Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for US-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University, USA, and currently associate dean and distinguished professor of the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University.

Inhalt
The Relationship between Civil Society and Governance in China; J.Yu  & S.Guo  PART I: GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES  Governance as Political Theory; B.G.Peters The Tension between Governance and State-building; J.Yu  & Z.He   Creating Civil-society Structures Top-down?; T.Heberer Industry Associations' Participation in Public Policymaking from the Perspective of State-Society Relations: A Conceptual Framework and Comparative Case Studies; H.Jiang , J.Zhang   Y.Zhou Social Enterprise in China; W.Bielefeld  & L.He   PART II: CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE PRACTICE IN CHINA Growing out of Participation: Finding the Developmental Path of China's Civil Society; J.Yu  & J.Zhou Institutional Barriers for the Development of Civil Society in Current China; H.Zengke   Recall Behavior and Right Remedy: The Internal Logic of Institutional Change  - A Case Study of Three Social Organizations; J.Xu Transforming State and Citizen through Community Building: The View from Zhejiang; K.Parris Optimal Size of Business Associations under the Principle of 'One Industry, One Association'; B.He