1st Edition

Governing Food Safety in China A Party-State-Society Triangle Model

By Yi Lu Copyright 2027
220 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyzes China’s food safety co-governance with Chinese characteristics through the Asymmetric Party-State-Society (PSS) Triangle Structure, combining theoretical analysis with sixty-seven interviews conducted between 2018 and 2024. It traces how this framework took shape and matured from the 2008 melamine scandal to the present.   The framework positions the Communist Party at the... Read more

PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND FRAMEWORK CONSTRUCTION  1 Theoretical Lineage of Collaborative Governance  2 Institutional Genes of Collaborative Governance in China  3 The Asymmetric Party-State-Society Triangle: A Model of Chinese Collaborative Governance  PART II THE TRIANGLE STRUCTURE IN ACTION: APEX, BASE, AND PIVOT  4 Apex Control: Dual Transmission of the Party in Food Safety Governance  5 Base Dominance: State’s Rigid Control in Food Safety  6 Pivot Dependence: The Limited Role of Society in Food Safety Oversight  PART III COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND GOVERNANCE EFFECTIVENESS  7 The Parallel Structure: Collaborative Food Safety Governance in Western Democracies  8 Institutional Origins: Path Dependence and the Logic of Divergence  9 China and the West: Assessing Collaborative Governance Effectiveness  PART IV THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE TRAJECTORIES  10 Theoretical Contributions of the Triangle Structure  11 Globalization and Challenges of Transnational Governance  12 The Future of Collaborative Governance with Chinese Characteristics

Biography

Yi Lu (J.S.D., Yale Law School) is Senior Lecturer at School of Transnational Law, Peking University, and Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Her research focuses on food law.