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The extent of coverage provided by a country's health services is directly related to the level of development of that country's democratic process (and its power relations).

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Abbreviations -- Lists of tables, diagrams, graphs and maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Socioeconomic Development Model: evolution and current situation -- 1.1. The economic situation in light of development challenges -- 1.2. The role of the state in the Chinese economy -- 1.3. The main features of the Chinese model of Socioeconomic development -- 1.4. The level and dynamics of regional development in the context of factors determining the diversification of China's modernization -- Chapter 2. Regional policy in the political and administrative system -- 2.1. The system of central authorities in the context of regional policy -- 2.1.1. State Council: The National People's Congress -- 2.1.2. The National Development and Reform Commission -- 2.2. The territorial system of the state in the light of regional development -- 2.3. Province: subject or object of regional policy? -- 2.4. The systemic position of the county as an intermediate subnational authority -- 2.5. The township in light of the tasks of local authorities -- 2.6. Multilevel governance of regional policy and interactions between central and subnational governments -- 2.7. Financial aspects as an element of shaping regional policy at the local level -- Chapter 3. Designing the regional development of the People's Republic of China: The challenges of policy formulation and objectives -- 3.1. Political evolution and Chinese development challenges -- 3.2. The process of formulating goals: centralized (non)‍planning -- 3.2.1. The role of central and regional governments -- 3.3. Beyond growth and social peace: China's regional development priorities -- 3.4. 13th Five-Year Plan for 2016-2020 and its implications -- 3.5. 14th Five-Year Plan for 2021-2025: development not only coordinated.

Political parties learn from foreign incumbents, i.e., parties abroad that won office. But does the scope of this cross-national policy diffusion vary with the party family that generates incumbents? We argue that party family conditions transnational policy learning when it makes information on the positions of sister parties more readily available and relevant. Both conditions apply to Social Democratic parties. Unlike other party families, Social Democrats faced major competitive challenges from the 1970s and they exhibit exceptionally strong transnational organizations – factors that, as we contend, uniquely facilitate cross-national policy learning from successful parties within the family. We analyze parties' policy positions using spatial methods and find that Social Democratic parties are indeed exceptional as they emulate one another across borders more than Christian Democrats and Conservatives. These findings have important implications for our understanding of political representation and of Social Democratic parties' election strategies over the last forty years.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that affect progression to university education across Europe.Design/methodology/approachThe data used are obtained from the fourth round of the European Social Survey (2008).FindingsFindings point to interesting age by gender and age by parental education interactions affecting the entrance to university. It demonstrates the disparity that exists across Europe whereby in some countries progression has been a smooth process for the past few decades while in others widening participation to higher education has only been a recent phenomenon.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this study are discussed with reference to social reproduction theories and have implications for wider European educational policies for enhancing access to university education.Originality/valueIn a globalised education market inequalities may be observed within countries but also between countries making the outcomes of policies for offering equal opportunities a complex one.