China’s Local Policymakers’ Strategic Adaptation to Political Centralization
Introduction According to its Constitution, China is a unitary state; however, as part of economic reform in the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
China’s Local Policymakers’ Strategic Adaptation to Political Centralization
A nation must think before it acts.
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