State political identity and meta-governance: Comparative analysis of governance modes in vegetable retail in urban China

• Main Author: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Meta-governance; Political identity; Comparative analysis of governance modes; Urban food retail; Archival research and interview; China; Agribusiness; Asian Studies; Politics and Social Change
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2085; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3342/viewcontent/State_Political_Identity_and_Meta_Governance.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A government's political identity is a key factor in meta-governance; it powerfully shapes a government's policy aims and implementation preferences at the most abstract level and forms a stable governance mode. Dissonance between a pre-existing governance mode and the government's ev...