Scaling Down and Building Up: Using Systematic Sub-National Comparison to Explain Outcomes Related to Chinese State Sector Lay-offs.

In tying together general issues of subnational comparative analysis and the study of specific empirical phenomena in China, this paper examines: 1) which aspects of subnational comparative analysis used elsewhere can usefully inform the study of Chinese politics in general; 2) how one particular form of subnational comparison can help us understand the unfolding dynamics of Chinese state sector lay-offs; and 3) how this form of subnational comparative analysis might usefully be extended back into other areas of the wider field of comparative politics in a way that refines and sharpens the practice of subnational comparison elsewhere. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]