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This introductory chapter presents the key research question, the conceptual framework, and the chapter structure of the book. Through introducing the major research question, Zhou explains why she argues that the social foundation of the regulatory segmentation is the crucial issue of the systemic regulatory failure of the food safety regime in China.
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John Kojiro Yasuda and Christopher Ansell, “Regulatory Capitalism and Its Discontents: Bilateral Interdependence and the Adaptability of Regulatory Styles,” Regulation & Governance (2014).
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Bonarriva and Weaver, “China’s Agricultural Trade: Competitive Conditions and Effects on US Export,” 21.
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See for example: ANZ, “China’s Great Beef Challenge,” (Global Agribusiness Research, 2014); Dairy Australia, “Market Brief China,” (Dairy Australia Limited, 2014).
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Chen Shumei, “Sham or Shame: Rethinking the China’s Milk Powder Scandal from a Legal Perspective,” Journal of Risk Research 12, no. 6 (2009): 737.
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Xiumei Liu, “International Perspectives on Food Safety and Regulations – A Need for Harmonized Regulations: Perspectives in China,” Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 94, no. 10 (2014): 1928.
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Yasuda and Ansell, “Regulatory Capitalism and Its Discontents: Bilateral Interdependence and the Adaptability of Regulatory Styles.”
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Neil Fligstein, “Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions,” American Sociological Review 61, no. 4 (1996).
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Roselyn Hsueh, China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2011).
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Margaret M. Pearson, “Governing the Chinese Economy: Regulatory Reform in the Service of the State,” Public Administration Review 67, no. 4 (2007): 719.
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“The Business of Governing Business in China: Institutions and Norms of the Emerging Regulatory State,” World Politics 57, no. 2 (2005).
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Lan Xue and Kaibin Zhong, “Domestic Reform and Global Integration: Public Administration Reform in China over the Last 30 Years,” International Review of Administrative Sciences 78, no. 2 (2012).
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Karen Yeung, “The Regulatory State,” in The Oxford Handbook of Regulation, ed. Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
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See for example: OECD, OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: China 2009 (OECD Publishing); Dali L. Yang, Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2004); Shaoguang Wang, “Regulating Death at Coalmines: Changing Mode of Governance in China,” Journal of Contemporary China 15, no. 46 (2006). Michael W. Dowdle, “Beyond the Regulatory State: China and ‘Rule of Law’ in a Post-Fordist World,” Governance and Globalization Sciences Po in China, https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/1069424/filename/beyond-the-regulatory-state.pdf.
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Navroz K. Dubash and Bronwen Morgan, “The Embedded Regulatory State: Between Rules and Deals,” in The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South, ed. Navroz K. Dubash and Bronwen Morgan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 280.
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Ibid.
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See for example: Hsueh, China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization; Pearson, “The Business of Governing Business in China: Institutions and Norms of the Emerging Regulatory State”; “Governing the Chinese Economy: Regulatory Reform in the Service of the State.”
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See for example: Michael Lipton, Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977); Jean Oi, “Reform and Urban Bias in China,” Journal of Development Studies 29, no. 4 (1993); Tiejun Cheng and Mark Selden, “The Origin and Social Consequences of China’s Hukou System,” The China Quarterly 139(1994); Mark W. Skinner, Alun E. Joseph, and Richard G. Kuhn, “Social and Environmental Regulation in Rural China: Bringing the Changing Role of Local Government into Focus,” Geoforum 34(2003); Keyong Dong and Xiangfeng Ye, “Social Security System Reform in China,” China Economic Review 14, no. 4 (2003); Dali L. Yang, “Economic Transformation and State Rebuilding in China,” in Holding China Together, ed. Barry J. Naughton and Dali L. Yang (Cambridge, New York, Port Melbourne, Madrid, and Cape Town: Cambridge University Press, 2004); Fang Cai, “Hukou System and Unification of Rural-Urban Social Welfare,” China & World Economy 19, no. 3 (2011).
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Dubash and Morgan, “The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South.”
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David Goodman, Class in Contemporary China (Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 2014).
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Kelly David, “Between Social Justice and Social Order: The Framing of Inequality,” in Unequal China: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics of Inequality, ed. Waning Sun and Yingjie Guo (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013).
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Xueyi Lu, Dangdai Zhongguo Shehui Jieceng Yanjiu Baogao [Research Report on Contemporary China’s Social Strata] (Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2002).
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Ibid., 9.
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Ibid.
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Hanlong Lu and Yanjie Bian, “Inequality in Reform and Social Economy from the Perspective of Citizen Status,” in Social Stratification in China Today, ed. Peilin Li, Qiang Li, and Liping Sun (Beijng: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2004); Zhiyong Gao, “Beijing Shi Kunnan Shiqi Shangpin Gongying Zhuiji [Beijing Commodities Suppy in Difficult Times],” Yanhuang Chunqiu, no. 8 (2007).
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The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was held in 1978, and it signalled the beginning of marketization and economic liberalisation of China.
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David Goodman and Xiaowei Zang, “The New Rich in China: The Dimension of Social Change,” in The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives, ed. David Goodman (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).
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Cartier Carolyn and Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami, “Empowering the ‘Victim’,” The Journal of Geography 98, no. 6 (1999); Tan Yan, Graeme Hugo, and Lesley Potter, “Rural Women, Displacement and the Three Gorges Project,” Development and Change 36, no. 4 (2005); Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan, “The Impact of Growth and Inequality on Rural Poverty in China,” Journal of Comparative Economics 34, no. 4 (2006).
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Yongshun Cai, “The Resistance of Chinese Laid-Off Workers in the Reform Period,” The China Quarterly 170(2002); Dorothy Solinger, “Labour Market Reform and the Plight of the Laid-Off Proletariat,” The China Quarterly 170(2002); Mark Wang, “New Urban Poverty in China,” International Development Planning Review 26, no. 2 (2004).
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Heng Wu and Volunteer team, “China Food Safety News Database.” ZCCW.info, http://www.zccw.info/index.
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See for example: Erik Millstone and Patrick Van Zwanenberg, “The Evolution of Food Safety Policy–Making Institutions in the UK, EU and Codex Alimentarius,” Social Policy & Administration 36, no. 6 (2002); Erik Millstone, “Science, Risk and Governance: Radical Rhetorics and the Realities of Reform in Food Safety Governance,” Research Policy 38, no. 4 (2009); Karolina Zurek, “Social Implications of Europeanisation of Risk Regulation and Food Safety: Theoretical Framework for Analysis,” Yearbook of Polish European Studies 11(2007).
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Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein, and Robert Baldwin, The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
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Ibid., 26.
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Ibid., 26–27.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Zhou, G. (2017). Introduction. In: The Regulatory Regime of Food Safety in China. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50442-1_1
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