April 10, 2012
Brookings Institution Press just published Lai Hairong's (POLS PhD graduate 2008) book co-authored with Ann Florinni and Yeling Tan: China Experiments, From Local Innovations to National Reform.
It is can be breifly viewed on amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/China-Experiments-Innovations-National-Reform/dp/0815722001/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333962546&sr=8-1
It gives account on the political change in the past 20 years in China in four dimensions: streamlining administration, electoral mechanism, civil society, transparency; and explores China's different political trajectories in the near future.