Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism

The People's Republic of China has undergone tremendous structural changes over the past decades and now faces a fundamental tension in its pursuit of social stability and regime durability. Based on a dynamic typology of state-society relations, this volume adopts an evolutionary framework to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance. Drawing on original fieldwork, the authors identify areas in which state-society interactions have shif...