Panel 2: Government and Governance

 

Thursday 28 June 2007, am session

 

Convenors:

 

Dr Frank N. Pieke, BICC Director, University of Oxford, frank.pieke@chinese.ox.ac.uk

 

Prof Ka-Ho Mok, Director, Centre of East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, KH.Mok@bristol.ac.uk

 

 

Panellists and Papers

 

Professor Christine Wong, Washington University

Chair

 

Professor Yang Dali, University of Chicago, National University of Singapore

Discussant

 

Bo Zhiyue, St John Fisher College

Political Succession and Regime Change in China

 

Guo Yedan, Beijing International Studies University and Guo Dan, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences

A little spark may set the prairie ablaze: a case study of Xinhe county's reform on public budgeting

 

Ma Weihong, University of Turku, Shenzhen University and Gui Yong, Fudan University

Housing privatization, new neighbourhood space and governance: a case study of Shanghai

 

William Hurst, University of Oxford

Repression and state capacity in authoritarian regimes