State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China (eBook, PDF)

Serving the people
Redaktion: Schwartz, Jonathan; Shieh, Shawn

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the shifting role of the state and social organizations (e.g. NGOs) in providing social services in contemporary China. A series of case studies identifies a dynamic whereby the state increasingly withdraws from social service provision with social organizations taking up the slack. An interdisciplinary line up of contributors explore this dynamic, and how it affects the state-society relationship and the quality of social services provided.

Based on current research, this book engages existing debates over state-society relations offering a new thematic framework to evaluate this relationship. Drawing on the framework, each chapter explores a particular aspect of social service provision including orphan care, migrant labor protection and infectious disease control. Differentiating between case studies of crisis and non-crisis social service provision situations, this volume argues that state and social organizations engage in ongoing negotiations to achieve shared social service provision goals - a dynamic largely controlled by the state. However during crises, the controlled relationship may alter as the priority becomes addressing the immediate demand for essential social services. The result is the potential for a rapid change in relations between the state and social organizations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134055555
• Artikelnr.: 42975830

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Schwartz is Associate Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz. His research focuses on factors influencing policy implementation. Shawn Shieh is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is engaged in two projects in China, one on corruption and the other on NGOs.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. State and Society Responses to China's Social
Welfare Needs: An Introduction to the Debate Shawn Shieh and Jonathan
Schwartz 2. Beyond Corporatism and Civil Society: Three Modes of State -
NGO Interaction in China Shawn Shieh Part 2: Social Welfare Responses in
Noncrisis Situations 3. The Role of the State and NGOs in Caring for At -
Risk Children: The Case of Orphan care Catherine H. Keyser 4. Navigating a
Space for Labor Activism: Labor NGOs in the Pearl River Delta of South
China Hong Zhang and Marsha Smith 5. Green Activism?: Reassessing the Role
of Environmental NGOs in China Timothy Hildebrandt and Jennifer L. Turner
Part 3: Social Welfare Responses in Crisis Situations 6. The
Institutionalization of Buddhist Philanthropy in China André Laliberté 7.
The Impact of Crises on Social Service Provision in China: The State and
Society Respond to SARS Jonathan Schwartz 8. The Role of NGOs in China's
AIDS Crisis: Challenges and Possibilities Joan Kaufman Part 4: Conclusion
9. Serving the People? The Changing Roles of the State and Social
Organizations in Social Service Provision Jonathan Schwartz and Shawn Shieh