UID:
almahu_9949068788902882
Format:
1 online resource (217 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-20352-7
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1-134-20353-5
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1-280-29030-7
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9786610290307
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0-203-02941-0
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series ; 8
Content:
Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China's accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an 'inside' look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing's decision-making mechanisms, the book argues that China's WTO policy making is a state-led, leadership driven, and top-down process. Feng explores how China's determined political elite partly bypassed and partly restructured a largely reluctant and resistant bureaucracy, under constant pressure from an incre
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 The iron bloc inside out; 2 The road to the WTO; 3 Contending views on the WTO; 4 Elite politics and the WTO accession; 5 Bureaucratic politics and WTO accession; 6 Foreign pressures on China's WTO accession; Conclusion; Appendix: chronology of China's accession to the WTO; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-65098-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-36921-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203029411
