Abstract
This chapter focuses on the use of the term governance in the
context of the People’s Republic in China. While governance, in particular
global governance, is often connoted with a certain universal
applicability and a depoliticized and solutions-oriented form of public management, China may be regarded as a crucial case. As a crucial case, the discussion of governance and China also contributes
to a more general understanding that governance, applied
to non-Western contexts, can play an important role in comparative
understandings. Rather than assuming “global” and “general” understandings
of governance, specific governance contexts can act as mirrors
and testing grounds for governance models and instruments.
context of the People’s Republic in China. While governance, in particular
global governance, is often connoted with a certain universal
applicability and a depoliticized and solutions-oriented form of public management, China may be regarded as a crucial case. As a crucial case, the discussion of governance and China also contributes
to a more general understanding that governance, applied
to non-Western contexts, can play an important role in comparative
understandings. Rather than assuming “global” and “general” understandings
of governance, specific governance contexts can act as mirrors
and testing grounds for governance models and instruments.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Global Frontiers of Social Development in Theory and Practice: Climate, Economy, and Justice |
| Editors | B. Mohan |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 167-188 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137460707 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
