Conference Program Wednesday, March 26 All day Arrival of participants 19:30 Welcome dinner (hotel restaurant) Thursday, March 27 08:30 09:20 Opening remarks 08:30 08:40 ZHOU Chuangbing (President of Nanchang University) 08:40 08:50 ZENG Ming (Nanchang University) 08:50 09:00 YU Keping (China Center for Global Governance and Development, Beijing; Peking University) 09:00 09:10 YU Jianxing (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou) 09:10 09:20 Thomas HEBERER (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou; University of Duisburg- Essen; Governance in China Research Network) 09:20 09:30 Group photo 2014-03-08 11:08 1/5
Thursday, March 27 09:30 12:45 Panel 1: One-Party and Dominant-Party Rule in Comparative Perspective: Conditions of Stability and Legitimacy (Heberer) Chair: Thomas HEBERER 09:30 09:50 One-Party State Adam PRZEWORSKI (New York University) 09:50 10:15 Discussion 10:15 10:35 Why Chinese People Support the CCP Regime? Exploring the Sources of Regime Legitimacy CHU Yun-han (National Taiwan University, Taipei) 10:35 11:00 Discussion 15 min Break 11:15 11:35 What Democracy Theories Can Learn from China s Development Since the 1990s John KEANE (University of Sydney; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin) 11:35 12:00 Discussion 12:00 12:20 Learning, Training and Governing: CCP s Cadre Education Since the Reform YU Keping 12:20 12:45 Discussion 12:45 14:30 Lunch Break 14:30 17:40 Panel 2: Ideological Change and Regime Legitimacy (Holbig) Chair: CHU Yun-han 14:30 14:50 From Social Management to Social Governance: the Change of Discourse and the Adjustment of Policies HE Zengke (China Center for Global Governance and Development, 15:10 15:30 Ideological Adaptation and the Responsiveness Dilemma: Innovations in Party Theory since the 18th Party Congress Heike HOLBIG (GIGA Hamburg; Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.) 16:20 16:40 Ideological Discourse Formation: The Symbolic Space of Contemporary Chinese Grassroots Politics DAI Changzheng (University of International Business and Economics, 17:00 17:20 Training Good Communists: Party Ideology and the Charisma of Eliteness Frank PIEKE (Leiden University) 17:20 17:40 Discussion 2014-03-08 11:08 2/5
Friday, March 28 09:00 12:00 Panel 3: Policy-Making and Adaptive Governance: Plans, Lobbies, Networks and Corrective Mechanisms (Heilmann) Chair: Gunter SCHUBERT 09:00 09:20 The Role of Industry in China s National Economic Policymaking Process Scott KENNEDY (Indiana University, Bloomington) 09:20 09:40 Discussion 09:40 10:00 Policy-Making for Next-Generation Transportation, Energy and Information Networks in China CHEN Ling (Tsinghua University, 10:00 10:20 Discussion 20 min Break 10:40 11:00 Local government entrepreneurship, official turnover, and the diffusion of organizational innovation: The rise of a new administrative licensing system in China ZHU Xufeng (Tsinghua University, 11:00 11:20 Discussion 11:20 11:40 Towards a Typological Theory of E-Governance in China Christian GÖBEL (University of Vienna) / CHEN Xuelian (China Center for Global Governance and Development, 11:40 12:00 Discussion 12:00 14:30 Lunch Break 14:30 17:00 Panel 4: Social Stratification and Political Participation (Alpermann) Chair: Adam PRZEWORSKI 14:30 14:50 Social Status Change and Political Values in Urban China: Attitudes, Efficacy and Desires for Political Participation Björn ALPERMANN / Baris SELCUK / Katja YANG (University of Würzburg) 15:10 15:30 Strikes, 2010-2012: Stimulus, Demands, Discourse and Metastasis Marc BLECHER/ Daniel ZIPP (Oberlin College) 16:20 16:40 Innovation in Social Governance: Local Experience ZHOU Hongyun (China Center for Global Governance and Development, 2014-03-08 11:08 3/5
Saturday, March 29 09:00 12:00 Panel 5: The Local State and the Puzzle of China's Development (Heberer/Schubert) Chair: HE Zengke 09:00 09:20 Interaction of Private Entrepreneurs and Local Governments Thomas HEBERER / Gunter SCHUBERT (University of Tübingen) 09:20 09:40 Discussion 09:40 10:00 The Great Urbanization Forward? Local Cadres and the Drive for Community-Building in the Chinese Countryside Elena MEYER-CLEMENT (University of Tübingen) 10:00 10:20 Discussion 20 min Break 10:40 11:00 Discussing the Role of the Local State for the Emergence of Agrarian Change as a Trend in the Chinese Countryside René TRAPPEL (University of Freiburg) 11:00 11:20 Discussion 11:20 11:40 International Factors and Local Governance Transformation YANG Xuedong (China Center for Global Governance and Development, 11:40 12:00 Discussion 12:00 14:30 Lunch Break 14:30 17:40 Panel 6: Social Organizations and Party Governance Reform (Yu) Chair: YU Keping 14:30 14:50 Bridging or Embedding: the Dilemma of Social Organizations in China CHU Songyan (Department of Political Science of Chinese Academy of Governance, 15:10 15:30 From Social Control to Social Governance: The New Development of China s State-Society Relationship YU Jianxing 16:20 16:40 NGOs and Service Sub-Contracting? New Form of Social Welfare or Social Appeasement? Jude HOWELL (London School of Economics and Political Science) 17:00 17:20 How to remove the resource curse in social stability in China? A case study based on the analytical framework of profit sharing ZENG Ming 17:20 17:40 Discussion 17:40 18:20 Publication of Conference Papers and Final Remarks 17:40 17:50 YU Keping 17:50 18:00 YU Jianxing 18:00 18:10 18:10 18:20 LIAO Xiaoming (Nanchang University) Thomas HEBERER 2014-03-08 11:08 4/5
Sunday, March 30 09:00 Meeting for field trip to Jinggang Mountains Monday, March 31 16:00 17:00 Return from field trip to Jinggang Mountains 2014-03-08 11:08 5/5