Overview
- Offers a thorough introduction and analysis of food safety issues in China
- Emphasises the importance of understanding regulatory failure in China in terms of broader social interests
- Applies its finding to other public policies, such as the medical care system and environmental pollution in China
Part of the book series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy (PEPP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“The book brings interesting insights into the regulatory system of food safety in China. It is a useful entry point into the intricate question of food safety in China, a topic of main concern since the contaminated milk powder incident in 2008.” (Louis Augustin-Jean, newbooks.asia, July 3, 2020)
“This is a path breaking and innovative book on regulatory governance of food safety in China. Going beyond explanations of institutional dysfunction it locates the source of regulatory failure in the social foundations of segmented governance of food safety. It focuses on the social dynamics of the Chinese regulatory state.” (Kanishka Jayasuriya, Professor and Head of Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University, Western Australia)“Through vivid narratives on various cases, and rigorous and illuminating analysis, Zhou builds a clear and convincing argument that failures of food safety regime in China rest on long-established regulatory segmentation. The book links regulatory theory with sociological analysis of four distinct social strata of consumers, peeling away layers of institutional change to reveal often eye-opening patterns of uneven and fragmented regulation. As well as its contemporary relevance to the culturally and politically charged topic of food in a globalising world, the book has stimulating implications for the salience of regulatory theory beyond the terrain of industrialised democracies.” (Bronwen Morgan, Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, Australia)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Regulatory Regime of Food Safety in China
Book Subtitle: Governance and Segmentation
Authors: Guanqi Zhou
Series Title: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50442-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50441-4Published: 06 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84400-8Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50442-1Published: 23 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2524-7441
Series E-ISSN: 2524-745X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 303
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Asian Politics, International Political Economy, Governance and Government, Globalization