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"Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies' 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book collects the four IPS-Nathan Lectures that he delivered between April and May 2017, and gathers highlights of his dialogues with the audience. Ho surveys the increasingly complex world, and suggests what governments can do to prepare for the future — even as no one can predict it. He uses metaphors such as the "black elephant" and concepts like the "dialectic of governance" to explain how a systematic approach to thinking about the future can help countries in general — and Singapore in particular — build resilience and develop a comparative advantage in the face of uncertainty and rapid change. The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. Its primary goal is to promote public understanding and discourse of issues of critical national interest."--

Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho argues that understanding China's economy necessitates an analytical refocusing from Form to Function, detached from normative assumptions about institutional appearance and developing instead a 'Credibility Thesis'. In this reading, once institutions endogenously emerge and persist through actors' conflicting interactions, they are credible. Ho develops this idea theoretically, methodologically, and empirically by examining institutions around the sector that propelled, yet, simultaneously destabilizes development: real estate - land, housing and natural resources. Ho shows how this sector can further both our understanding of institutions and issues of capital, labor, infrastructure and technology.

Introduction: embedded activism and political change in a semi-authoritarian context / Peter Ho -- Self-imposed censorship and de-politicized politics in China: green activism, or a color revolution? / Peter Ho -- Corporatist control of environmental non-governmental organizations: a state perspective / Jiang Ru and Leonard Ortolano -- "Of seven mouths and eight tongues": media, civil society, and the rise of a green public sphere / Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang -- Grassland campaigns during the collective era: socialist politics and local strategies in Uxin Ju / Hong Jiang -- Channeling dissent: the institutionalization of environmental complaint resolution / Anna Brettell -- Not against the state, just protecting residents' interests: an urban movement in a Shanghai neighborhood / Jiangang Zhu and Peter Ho -- Caged by boundaries: NGO cooperation at the Sino-Russian border / Yanfei Sun and Maria Tysiachniouk -- Transnational advocacy at the grassroots: benefits and risks of international cooperation / Katherine Morton -- Perspectives of time and change: rethinking embedded green activism in China / Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds