When Chinese Central Orders and Promotion Criteria Conflict: Implementation Decisions on the Destitute in Poor versus Prosperous Cities

Modern China

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 571-606

  Solinger, Dorothy J ^a   Jiang, Ting ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

policy implementation; poverty; promotion criteria; social assistance; unemployment; urban

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POVERTY; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA;

EID: 84989816529     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: 15526836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0097700416635507     Document Type: Article

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