Papers in this issue include: ‘Politics First’: The Maoist state and the political process during the cultural revolution.
Managing central-local relations during socialist marketisation: A changing role for the Chinese Communist party.
The politics of accumulation in small-town India.
Constraints on civil society’s capacity to curb corruption: Lessons from the Indian experience.
Between cant and corporatism: Creating and enabling political environment for the poor.
Creating wealth and welfare: Entrepreneurship and the development state in rural China.