ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a framework for the analysis of the Three Gorges resettlement and environment policy that will structure the empirical material obtained during the course of the research. It presents different models, which will be used to systematise the materials. There are many ways to analyse political processes in China, and scholars contend on the methods most appropriate for the country. The chapter provides the Three general approaches have often been employed in the studies of policymaking: the rational choice model, the organisational process model and the bureaucratic politics model. It gives an overview of some selected central analytic approaches and theories that have been employed to discuss politics and decision-making in China by Western scholars. The chapter discusses the approaches were factionalism and elite conflict, the clientelist model, the interest groups model, the culturalist approach, the bureaucratic politics model and the fragmented authoritarianism model.
