On Feeding the Masses
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On Feeding the Masses

An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

On Feeding the Masses

An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China

About this book

China's food safety system is in crisis. Egregious scandals, as varied as the sale of liquor laced with Viagra and the distribution of fake eggs, reveal how regulatory practices have been stretched to their limit in the world's largest food production system. On Feeding the Masses focuses on the oft-cited but ultimately overlooked concept of scale to identify the root causes of China's regulatory failures in food safety. The 'politics of scale' framework highlights how regulators disagree on which level of government is best suited to regulate ('the scale of governance'), struggle to address multilevel tensions ('multidimensional scale integration'), and fail to understand how policies at one level of government can affect other levels of government in unexpected and costly ways ('scale externalities'). Drawing from over 200 interviews with food safety regulators and producers, the study provides one of the most comprehensive accounts of China's food safety crisis to date.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Boxes
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. 1 Food Safety and China’s Scale Problem
  13. 2 Revisiting Scale
  14. 3 A Short History of China’s Food Production
  15. 4 The Export Sector: The Heavy Hand of Direct Control
  16. 5 CSA Markets: “I Don’t Sell Vegetables, I Sell Trust”
  17. 6 Failed State Policies: Scale and Its Discontents
  18. 7 Coregulatory Initiatives: China’s Big, Small Farmer Problem
  19. 8 Scaling Down: Moving from Global to the Local
  20. 9 Scaling Up: From Local Experiments to National Solutions?
  21. 10 The Scale Politics of Regulatory Giants, Compared
  22. 11 Parting Thoughts on Scale
  23. Appendix
  24. Interviews
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index