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

标题：美国中国合作研究：中国中的地方政治改革摘要叙述：这是密歇根大学的约翰·E·杰克逊和M·肯特·詹宁斯之间为期两年半的合作研究项目，北京大学政治学系的研究人员。该项目的三个目标是(1)研究中国地方一级发生的政治和经济改革，(2)考察中国等地方政府的结构和行为；将这些结构和行为与其他国家的结构和行为进行比较，以及(3)将北京大学的研究人员通过参与研究的设计、数据收集、以及以这项工作为基础的论文的撰写和发表。预计这个项目将为中国的政治和经济改革提供重要的新发现，关于中国如何处理影响所有国家的全球趋势，以及中国的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一个涵盖广泛政治和经济现象的数据集，因此，将构成对中国政治动态知识和能力研究的根本性进步。该合作项目由美国国家科学基金会和中国国家教委联合主办。

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.