为什么中国地方人大的发展会存在一定程度的地方差异？本文以市级人大为例，分析了经济现代化与人大发展之间的关系。通过对全国性数据的定量分析，本文发现：首先，一个地方的经济发展水平越高，当地市级人大的立法权、监督权和代表功能的发展水平越高。第二，一个地方的第二、第三产业生产总值所占的比重越高，当地的市级人大越有可能在立法和代表方面发挥重要的作用。 / 本文还利用丰富的定性资料和统计数据分析了其中的因果机制，发现随着经济现代化水平的不断提高，市级人大有更强的动力行使立法权、监督权和发挥代表功能，以应对经济现代化所带来的各种挑战；此外，经济现代化给市级人大的发展带来了更多的财政资源和人力资源，因此也就提升了市级人大的能力。因而经济现代化能够对人大的发展起到促进的作用。 / 可以说，中国市级人大的发展是政治制度调适的一种表现形式，一方面，尽管市级人大已经逐渐摆"橡皮图章"的尴尬地位，但党对人大的领导仍然得到有效的维持；另一方面，人大的发展调整了人大与"一府两院"、人大与民众之间的关系，加强了制度化的横向分权和自下而上的问责：这可以在一定程度上减少官员违法滥权的现象，改善政府的施政绩效，提高政府的回应性，缓和社会矛盾，也就促进了社会的稳定，提高了政权的政绩合法性，因而有助于中共政权更好地适应经济现代化所带来的外部环境的变化。 / 本文的发现表明，一方面，正如许多研究所揭示的，经济现代化的过程可能会造成社会的不稳定，并且给威权政体的生存带来威胁；然而另一方面，经济现代化又会促进威权政体中的政治制度进行调适，从而在一定程度上有利于促进社会的稳定和威权统治的延续。 / 然而，需要指出的是，这种政治制度的调适具有一些难以克服的局限性，随着经济现代化水平的继续提高，政治制度调适的需求可能会进一步增加，但调适的空间可能会逐渐缩小，在这种情况下，威权统治者能否继续通过政治制度的调适来保持威权体制的生命力，则仍然是未知之数。 / Why does regional variation exist in the development of Local People’s Congresses in China? Taking Municipal People’s Congresses (MPC) as cases, this research explores the relationship between economic modernization and the development of People’s Congresses (PC). Based on quantitative analysis on national data, it reveals that, firstly, the higher the level of economic development, the higher the levels of MPCs’ development in legislation, supervision and representation; secondly, the larger the proportion of the gross product of secondary and tertiary industries in GDP, the higher the development levels of MPCs’ legislation and representation. / This research also analyzes abundant qualitative and quantitative data to reveal the causal mechanism and finds that, firstly, as the modernization of economics, MPCs have stronger motivations to promote their legislation, supervision and representation for dealing with the challenges brought by economic modernization; secondly, economic modernization also increases the finanicial and human resources owned by MPCs, which is beneficial to the development of their capacities. Thus economic modernization can make contributions to PCs’ development. / The dissertation argues that the development of Chinese MPC is the Adaptation of Political Institutions. On the one hand, though going away from the image of "rubber stamp", PCs are still under robust leadership of Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the other hand, PCs’ development adjusts the relationship between PCs and governments, procuratorates or courts, as well as the relationship between PCs and the Public, strengthening institutional horizontal and vertical accountability. To a certain degree, the adaptation of political institutions restrains officials’ illegal behaviors and the abuse of power, improves the performance of governments, strengthens governments’ responsiveness and decreases social contradiction, thus has positive effects on social stability and regime legitimacy, which makes the CCP regime be better adapted to the changing external environment caused by economic modernization. / The main discoveries of this dissertation illustrate that, on the one hand, just as many studies have revealed, the process of economic modernization is possible to cause social instability as well as the collapse of authoritarian regimes; on the other hand, economic modernization also promotes the adaptation of political institutions in authoritarianism, which is beneficial to social stability and regime survival. / Nevertheless, some limitations still inevitably exist in such adaptation of political institutions. As economics continues to be more and more modernized, the demand for politically institutional adaptation may increase, but the remaining space for such adaptation will probably turn narrower and narrower. Under this condition, it is still unknown whether or not authoritarian rulers are able to keep utilizing the adaptation of political institutions to consolidate their regimes. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 陳川慜. / Parallel title from added title page. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-188). / Abstracts also in English. / Chen Chuanmin.

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Environmental Management / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

李振. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Li Zhen.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences / Department of Sociology

by Chan Wai Yin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-171). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / List of tables --- p.viii / List of abbreviations --- p.ix / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / The Research Case --- p.2 / The Puzzle --- p.4 / Methodology --- p.6 / Outline of the Thesis --- p.8 / Chapter 2 --- Intergenerational Non-investment-inducing Public Goods and the State --- p.11 / National and Cultural pride as an Intergenerational Non-investment- inducing Public Good --- p.11 / The Nature of the State --- p.19 / Good State --- p.20 / """Neutral"" State" --- p.22 / Bad State --- p.24 / Chapter 3 --- China as an Entrepreneurial State --- p.33 / State Administration in China --- p.33 / Central-local Fiscal Relations from a Historical Perspective --- p.41 / Fragmented State Perspective --- p.45 / Entrepreneurial State Perspective --- p.47 / Public Choice's Critiques --- p.58 / China as an Entrepreneurial State: Revised --- p.66 / Chapter 4 --- Archaeological Protection in China --- p.68 / Archaeological Protection in Democratic Countries --- p.68 / National Laws and Regulations of Archaeological Protection in China --- p.75 / Difficulties Encountered in Archaeological Protection --- p.87 / Chapter 5 --- Preservation of the Relics of the Nanyue Kingdom in Guangzhou --- p.94 / The City of Guangzhou --- p.94 / Regulations on the Protection of the Cultural Relics in the Guangdong Province and Guangzhou --- p.96 / Archaeological Protection in Guangzhou --- p.99 / The Preservation of the Royal Relics of the Nanyue Kingdom --- p.101 / Chapter 6 --- The Political Logic of Preserving Cultural Legacy --- p.118 / Identifying the Individual Actor: Mayors of Guangzhou --- p.119 / Chinese Officials as a Political Actor --- p.121 / Establishing a Modern Civil Service --- p.122 / A Performance-based Civil Service --- p.126 / The Political Logic of Preservation of Cultural Legacy in Guangzhou --- p.133 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.146 / The Provision of Intergenerational Non-investment-inducing Public Goods --- p.146 / Public Choice Theory and the Entrepreneurial State Perspective --- p.148 / Reflections on the Study of Chinese Politics --- p.158 / Limitations of the Study --- p.161 / Bibliography --- p.165