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085511
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2008.
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Renewable energy, although capable of making a significant contribution to the achievement of sustainable development, has, however, failed to reach its full potential in mist countries. A major challenge of the sustainability tradition is how to translate sustainable development from a concept to effective implementation. However, the mechanisms through which the concept of sustainable development can be into operation remain an area largely unexplored in the energy
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ID:
085500
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Responsible government is often seen as contingent on democracy. Yet despite China's continued lack of notable progress in democratization, recent years have witnessed some limited moves towards responsible governance. In the absence of free elections and other institutional arrangements, how can an authoritarian regime become responsible.
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ID:
085504
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The article examines the institutional origins of the prevalent failures of Chinese public hospitals to treat indigent patients from the perspective of changes in the demand and supply of affordable health insurance system and insufficient incentive and neglect of the post mao regime to rebuild an effective health safety net, together with the collapse of the triage in the reform period, have contributed to an enormous growth of the demand for affordable health care.
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ID:
085499
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This article analyzes the origin and subsequent institutionalization of government reforms in Taiwan during the 1950s and 1960s. It argues that such reforms helped strengthen the administrative accountability as well as the governing capacity of the Kuomintag regime during its authoritarian rule.
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ID:
085498
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How can government become resposible. Is this something we can reasonably expect to achieve. What does responsibility in government mean in terms of institutions, procedures, and substantive outcomes? These questions on the meaning and efficacy of government have for a long time dominated practical and intellectual debates across a range of soceities, but have still escaped resolution through any definitive conslusions.
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ID:
085501
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This paper extends the ethical responsibility theory to an analysis of the internal supervision regulation, promulgated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2004. It examines not only the content of the ISR but also the socio-economic and ideological background to see how the document was born under the pressure for strengthening intra party democracy and combating corruption.
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ID:
085508
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ID:
085506
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Summary/Abstract |
How to regulate decentralization without losing Beijing's development power is a focal point in the five papers that follws. The first paper, by Martinez-Vazquez, Quiao and Zhang examines the shift from administrative to unregulated economic decentralization, seeking to explain the uneven distribution to fiscal resources across the whole country.
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ID:
085510
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Publication |
2008.
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Summary/Abstract |
A growing body of literature on China's "regulatory state" has analysed the efforts of the Chinese government to regular strategic yet highly centralized state-owned industries. Yet how does decentralization affect this need for regulation? This article analyses the pattern of regulatory governance for one of China's most decentralized but strategic industries, the auto industry.
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ID:
085507
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In a decentralized economy with wide disparties in the availability of local fiscal resources, national equalization policies play a key role in determining the quality of public services and the degree of their accessibility to citizens residing in different parts of the country.
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ID:
085509
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