Welfare entrepreneurs and paradoxes of social control in rural China

这个项目旨在考察由当地私营企业家运营的非国家福利制度如何影响当代农村中国的权力关系。该项目结合了人文科学和社会科学的方法，预计将产生关于福利政策和做法如何与社会控制机构相互作用或一起发展的新知识。预期的研究成果包括关于后社会主义经济体的非正式政治进程和体制发展的新的经验数据。这将加强学术理论的基础，并为商业和政府组织提供信息和概念工具，以准确评估其中国合作伙伴、竞争对手或同行的优先事项。

This project aims to examine how non-state welfare systems run by local private entrepreneurs affect power relationships in contemporary rural China. Combining humanistic and social science approaches, the project expects to generate new knowledge about how welfare policies and practices interact with or develop alongside institutions of social control. Expected research outcomes include new empirical data on informal political processes and institutional development in post-Socialist economies. This will enhance the basis for scholarly theory and provide commercial and governmental organisations with the information and conceptual tools to accurately assess the priorities of their Chinese partners, competitors, or counterparts.