Thomas Heberer
Biographic Data
| ID | 368375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Heberer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Heberer |
| SIGNATURE | HEBERER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0585-0699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Die politischen Systeme Ostasiens: Eine Einführung
Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China: The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics
Online Connective Representation in China
In this article, we join an ongoing debate among Western scholars on political representation and argue that political representation is undergoing a transformation stimulated by the rapid proliferation of the new information and communication technologies. We propose that in China, the new social media have stimulated a shift from representation by official organizations to bottom-up self-representation, and from mandate political representation…
Representation in a context across political orders and the Chinese case
This paper sheds light on the issue of political representation in an authoritarian context, taking China as a case study. In the academic literature, the concept of political representation is primarily related to mechanisms of representation in a democratic setting, used in a rather technical or normative sense and concerned with institutionalized representation in legislatures and parliaments, with a strong focus on elections by which citizens…
Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Behavior and Collective Action of Private Entrepreneurs in China
This article, the product of several years of extensive fieldwork, seeks to reinvigorate the debate on China’s private entrepreneurs by arguing that they have become a “strategic group” within the Chinese polity. While they do not openly challenge the current regime, they continuously alter the power balance within the current regime coalition, which connects them to the party-state at all administrative levels. As the future of Chinese socialism…
Political Reform and Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China
Fifty Years On
This article takes as its starting point the current discussion in China about how to assess the Cultural Revolution ( CR ) of 1966–1976 and whether it might recur in one form or another. For readers unfamiliar with this movement, we first present an overview of its origins, course and consequences. Since this modern Chinese trauma is inseparable from the political views and objectives of its initiator, Mao Zedong, the latter’s role will also be …
The Chinese ‘Developmental State 3.0’ and the resilience of authoritarianism
Political scientists frequently argue that authoritarian systems are per se economically inefficient, non-innovative, and without legitimacy. China's economic success and relative stability in recent decades have shown, however, that such postulates are far too simplistic. Accordingly, the question is why China is managing to develop so smoothly and how its stability and legitimacy are to be explained. This article takes up the concept of the 'de…
Whither local governance in contemporary China? Reconfiguration for more effective policy implementation
This article describes China's reorganization of its local governance system since the early 2000s. Policy shifts, administrative restructuring and intensified public inclusion have considerably modified local governance, especially in the country's vast rural areas and, we argue, have laid the groundwork for continuous and more effective policy implementation amidst increasing complexity and challenges. Based on years of fieldwork on new rural d…
Multicultural China: A Statistical Yearbook (2014)
China in 2014
In 2014 China’s development was characterized by a search for structural reforms in both domestic and foreign policies. Domestically, focal issues included the fight against corruption, the implementation of reforms of China’s development model, and a tightening of internal (anti-terror) measures. In foreign policy, traditional paradigms are now under scrutiny, and the regional rivalry with the U.S. has intensified
Die Politischen Systeme Ostasiens: Eine Einführung
Die politischen Systeme Ostasiens: Eine Einführung
China in 2013
In 2013, China’s new party and state leadership specified its domestic and foreign policies in the context of Xi Jinping’s vision of the “Chinese Dream.” A new reform package modifying China’s growth and development model has been announced. In foreign policy, a debate has commenced regarding another side of the “Chinese Dream”: China’s rise as a “Great Power.”
Chinas ländliche Gesellschaft Im Umbruch: Urbanisierung und Sozio-ökonomischer Wandel Auf Dem Lande
Korruption in China: Analyse Eines Politischen, ökonomischen und Sozialen Problems
Evaluation Processes, Local Cadres' Behaviour and Local Development Processes
This study investigates the impact of political evaluations on the behaviour of leading county and township cadres in rural China. The article is structured in two parts. In the first section the institutional foundations of the evaluation system for local administrations in rural China will be introduced. The section will conclude with a brief overview of policy reforms initiated by the centre to tackle some of the perceived shortcomings of the …
Ist China ein “Entwicklungsstaat”? Überlegungen zur Funktion des gegenwärtigen Party-State
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 577 - 587
Impact of Environmental Change on Stability and Conflict Potentials in China
The Politics of Community Building in Urban China
This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months of fieldwork in locations ranging from poor and dilapidated neighbourhoods in Shenyang City to middle class gated communities in Shenzhen, the aut…
Environmental Governance in China: New Developments and Perspectives
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2011: Environmental Governance in China: New Developments and Perspectives
Streamlining Local Behaviour through Communication, Incentives and Control: A Case Study of Local Environmental Policies in China
This article describes how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the implementation of environmental policies at the local level. It is argued that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at the local levels to manoeuver and bargain with those on higher levels for flexible adjustment of implementation policies according to local conditions. However, decentralisation is accompanied by significant in…
Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China . Yoshiko Ashiwa , David L. Wank
The “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”: China's modern trauma
This paper examines and analyses the causes and consequences of the Cultural Revolution in China. This great twentieth century Chinese trauma cannot be detached from Mao as a person. He was its initiator and – as a charismatic leader – stood above the people and the party, and in the consciousness of the majority of the people was perceived as a great, compelling leader. This paper traces the historical setting, the causes, the process and the co…
Evolvement of Citizenship in Urban China or Authoritarian Communitarianism? Neighborhood development, community participation, and autonomy
Frequently, civil society is identified with an increase of associational life. Yet, in this article it is argued that the emerging of citizens and citizenship is a vital precondition for developing a civil society. Here I will focus on a concept of citizenship grounded in a local context. Accordingly, it focuses on both the public discourse on citizenship and the institutional effects with regard to citizenship generated by the establishment of …
Evaluation Processes, Local Cadres' Behaviour and Local Development Processes
This study investigates the impact of political evaluations on the behaviour of leading county and township cadres in rural China. The article is structured in two parts. In the first section the institutional foundations of the evaluation system for local administrations in rural China will be introduced. The section will conclude with a brief overview of policy reforms initiated by the centre to tackle some of the perceived shortcomings of the …
Evolvement of Citizenship in Urban China or Authoritarian Communitarianism? Neighborhood development, community participation, and autonomy
Frequently, civil society is identified with an increase of associational life. Yet, in this article it is argued that the emerging of citizens and citizenship is a vital precondition for developing a civil society. Here I will focus on a concept of citizenship grounded in a local context. Accordingly, it focuses on both the public discourse on citizenship and the institutional effects with regard to citizenship generated by the establishment of …
Whither local governance in contemporary China? Reconfiguration for more effective policy implementation
This article describes China's reorganization of its local governance system since the early 2000s. Policy shifts, administrative restructuring and intensified public inclusion have considerably modified local governance, especially in the country's vast rural areas and, we argue, have laid the groundwork for continuous and more effective policy implementation amidst increasing complexity and challenges. Based on years of fieldwork on new rural d…
Streamlining Local Behaviour through Communication, Incentives and Control: A Case Study of Local Environmental Policies in China
This article describes how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the implementation of environmental policies at the local level. It is argued that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at the local levels to manoeuver and bargain with those on higher levels for flexible adjustment of implementation policies according to local conditions. However, decentralisation is accompanied by significant in…
The Chinese ‘Developmental State 3.0’ and the resilience of authoritarianism
Political scientists frequently argue that authoritarian systems are per se economically inefficient, non-innovative, and without legitimacy. China's economic success and relative stability in recent decades have shown, however, that such postulates are far too simplistic. Accordingly, the question is why China is managing to develop so smoothly and how its stability and legitimacy are to be explained. This article takes up the concept of the 'de…
Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Behavior and Collective Action of Private Entrepreneurs in China
This article, the product of several years of extensive fieldwork, seeks to reinvigorate the debate on China’s private entrepreneurs by arguing that they have become a “strategic group” within the Chinese polity. While they do not openly challenge the current regime, they continuously alter the power balance within the current regime coalition, which connects them to the party-state at all administrative levels. As the future of Chinese socialism…
Groupes stratégiques et capacité étatique: Le cas des entrepreneurs privés
Appliquée à un Etat centralisé, la capacité étatique (state capacity) désigne la faculté d’un Etat de faire appliquer des décisions politiques. Récemment, certains ont le concept d’ « Etat » pour concentrer leur analyse sur les interactions entre l’Etat et la société. L’institutionnalisme centré sur les acteurs considère les phénomènes sociaux comme le produit d’interactions délibérées entre des acteurs individuels, collectifs ou corporatistes. L…
China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation
Representation in a context across political orders and the Chinese case
This paper sheds light on the issue of political representation in an authoritarian context, taking China as a case study. In the academic literature, the concept of political representation is primarily related to mechanisms of representation in a democratic setting, used in a rather technical or normative sense and concerned with institutionalized representation in legislatures and parliaments, with a strong focus on elections by which citizens…
China in 2013
In 2013, China’s new party and state leadership specified its domestic and foreign policies in the context of Xi Jinping’s vision of the “Chinese Dream.” A new reform package modifying China’s growth and development model has been announced. In foreign policy, a debate has commenced regarding another side of the “Chinese Dream”: China’s rise as a “Great Power.”
Doing Business in Rural China: Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs
Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group) practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor. Their traditional society was stratified into endogamous castes, the most powerful of which owned slaves. With the incorporat…
China in 2014
In 2014 China’s development was characterized by a search for structural reforms in both domestic and foreign policies. Domestically, focal issues included the fight against corruption, the implementation of reforms of China’s development model, and a tightening of internal (anti-terror) measures. In foreign policy, traditional paradigms are now under scrutiny, and the regional rivalry with the U.S. has intensified
Introduction: Diversity of Nation-building in East and Southeast Asia
Online Connective Representation in China
In this article, we join an ongoing debate among Western scholars on political representation and argue that political representation is undergoing a transformation stimulated by the rapid proliferation of the new information and communication technologies. We propose that in China, the new social media have stimulated a shift from representation by official organizations to bottom-up self-representation, and from mandate political representation…
Ist China ein “Entwicklungsstaat”? Überlegungen zur Funktion des gegenwärtigen Party-State
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 577 - 587
Zero tolerance of chemical pollutants in food and animal feed: European policies and public health
In the European Union, zero tolerance provisions were established for substances which are not permitted or explicitly prohibited to occur at any concentration level in food or animal feed. The dilemma in dealing with zero tolerances is demonstrated by the example of malachite green and crystal violet, two compounds used as veterinary drugs for the antifungal and antiparasitic treatment of (ornamental) fish. Zero tolerance applies to residues of …
Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam as strategic players in social and political change
In the process of social and political change in China and Vietnam, the role of private entrepreneurs is of particular interest. While entrepreneurs cannot yet be said to possess the attributes of a social class, they can be identified as an emerging social group, notable by its members’ lifestyle, the different types of capital to which they have access, and how they perceive themselves in terms of their economic, social and political standing r…
Asian Crisis and Political Change: Discourses on Political Reform in East and Southeast Asia
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation
This title was first published in 1990: This book is a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West. It examines the impact of Chinese culture on these diverse groups and China's attempt to bring them into the mainstream of Han life. The impact of the Cultural Revolution on the minority peoples, the future of Tibet…
China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation
Korruption in China
Korruption in China: Analyse eines politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Problems
China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation
This title was first published in 1990: This book is a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West. It examines the impact of Chinese culture on these diverse groups and China's attempt to bring them into the mainstream of Han life. The impact of the Cultural Revolution on the minority peoples, the future of Tibet…
Korruption in China: Analyse eines politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Problems
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 339 - 341
Mao Zedong - Der unsterbliche Revolutionär? Versuch einer kritischen Neubewertung anläßlich seines 100. Geburtstages
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 511 - 513
Der Gansu-Korridor
Chinas ländliche Gesellschaft im Umbruch
Chinas ländliche Gesellschaft im Umbruch: Urbanisierung und sozio-ökonomischer Wandel auf dem Lande
Asian Crisis and Political Change: Discourses on Political Reform in East and Southeast Asia
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Einführung in die politischen Systeme Ostasiens: VR China, Hongkong, Japan, Nordkorea, Südkorea, Taiwan
Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam as strategic players in social and political change
In the process of social and political change in China and Vietnam, the role of private entrepreneurs is of particular interest. While entrepreneurs cannot yet be said to possess the attributes of a social class, they can be identified as an emerging social group, notable by its members’ lifestyle, the different types of capital to which they have access, and how they perceive themselves in terms of their economic, social and political standing r…
Groupes stratégiques et capacité étatique: Le cas des entrepreneurs privés
Appliquée à un Etat centralisé, la capacité étatique (state capacity) désigne la faculté d’un Etat de faire appliquer des décisions politiques. Récemment, certains ont le concept d’ « Etat » pour concentrer leur analyse sur les interactions entre l’Etat et la société. L’institutionnalisme centré sur les acteurs considère les phénomènes sociaux comme le produit d’interactions délibérées entre des acteurs individuels, collectifs ou corporatistes. L…
Wahlsysteme und Wahltypen: Politische Systeme und Regionale Kontexte Im Vergleich
Rural China: Economic and social change in the late twentieth century
1. Introduction 2. Zhen Settlements between Urban and Rural 3. Field Research: Fieldwork Procedure and the Surveyed Zhen 4. Settlements and Population 5. Economic Structures and Economic Change 6. The Finance System and the Development of Rural Towns (Zhen) 7. Processes of Change in Administration and Politics 8. The Rise of a New Social Stratification and of New Local Elites 9. Value Change and Interest Articulation 10. Summary and Evaluation
Introduction: Diversity of Nation-building in East and Southeast Asia
Wahlsysteme und Wahltypen: Politische Systeme und Regionale Kontexte Im Vergleich
Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China: Band I
Doing Business in Rural China: Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs
Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group) practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor. Their traditional society was stratified into endogamous castes, the most powerful of which owned slaves. With the incorporat…
Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China
Die Autoren präsentieren Teilergebnisse eines Forschungsvorhabens, das sich mit dem politischen Bewusstsein in der VR China im Kontext lokaler Partizipationsprozesse befasst hat. Untersucht wurde dabei die Einwirkung unterschiedlicher institutioneller Reformen der Partizipationserweiterung auf das politische Bewusstsein und Verhalten der ländlichen und urbanen Bevölkerung. Gerade in gesellschaftlichen Umbruchphasen büßen alte Orientierungsmuster …
Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China: Band I
Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China . Elizabeth J. Perry , Merle Goldman
Ethnic entrepreneurs as carriers of ethnic identity: A case study among the Liangshan Yi (Nuosu) in China
In this article, the author examines the connection between Yi (Nuosu) entrepreneurship and ethnic identity. First the term identity is discussed, and then important factors for creating identity among Nuosu entrepreneurs are outlined. Concerning the Nuosu–Yi, until today the clan plays a predominant role. Through entrepreneurship, clan-transcending institutions and a clan-transcending ethnic identity are emerging. The author follows up by addres…
The “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”: China's modern trauma
This paper examines and analyses the causes and consequences of the Cultural Revolution in China. This great twentieth century Chinese trauma cannot be detached from Mao as a person. He was its initiator and – as a charismatic leader – stood above the people and the party, and in the consciousness of the majority of the people was perceived as a great, compelling leader. This paper traces the historical setting, the causes, the process and the co…
Evolvement of Citizenship in Urban China or Authoritarian Communitarianism? Neighborhood development, community participation, and autonomy
Frequently, civil society is identified with an increase of associational life. Yet, in this article it is argued that the emerging of citizens and citizenship is a vital precondition for developing a civil society. Here I will focus on a concept of citizenship grounded in a local context. Accordingly, it focuses on both the public discourse on citizenship and the institutional effects with regard to citizenship generated by the establishment of …
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