U.S.-China Cooperative Research (Political Science): Local Political Reform in China

题目：中美合作研究：中国地方政治改革摘要叙述：这是一个两个半。密歇根大学的John E. Jackson和M. Kent Jennings与北京大学政治学系的研究人员之间的年度合作研究项目。该项目的三个目标是：(1)研究中国地方一级正在进行的政治和经济改革；(2)研究中国地方政府的结构和行为，并将这些结构和行为与其他国家的结构和行为进行比较；(3)通过参与研究的设计、数据的收集以及基于这项工作的论文的撰写和发表，将北京大学的研究人员带入国际研究界。该项目预计将提供有关中国政治和经济改革的重要新发现，中国如何应对影响所有国家的全球趋势，以及中国地方政府和政治与其他国家相比如何。它将提供一些基线分析和数据集，这些数据集将涵盖广泛的政治和经济现象，因此，将构成对研究中国政治动态的知识和能力的根本进步。本合作项目由美国国家科学基金会和中国国家教委共同发起。

Title: U.S..China Cooperative Research: Local Political Reform in China Abstract Narrative: This is a two and one half.year collaborative research project between John E. Jackson and M. Kent Jennings of the University of Michigan and researchers from the Political Science Department of Beijing University. The three objectives of the project are (1) to study the political and economic reforms taking place at the local level in China, (2) to examine the structure and behavior of local government in China, >comparing these structures and behaviors with those in other countries, and (3) to bring researchers from Beijing University into the international research community through their participation in the design of the study, the data collection, and the writing and publishing of papers based on this work. This project is expected to provide important new findings about political and economic reform in China, about how global trends affecting all countries are being dealt with in China, and about how local government and politics in China compare to those in other countries. It will provide some baseline analyses and a data set that will encompass a broad range of political and economic phenomena, and as such, will constitute a fundamental advance in the knowledge of and ability to study political dynamics in China. This collaborative project is jointly sponsored by the NSF and the Chinese State Education Commission.