State and society responses to China's social welfare needs : an introduction to the debate / Shawn Shieh and Jonathan Schwartz -- Beyond corporatism and civil society : three modes of state - NGO interaction in China / Shawn Shieh -- Social welfare responses in noncrisis situations -- The role...

Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the...