In Chapter eight, I learned about the reformation of state and local governments in China. Traditionally, China has been viewed as a unitary system, with a strong central government having great involvement even at the local levels. However, in recent years reformation has become increasingly present, driven primarily by academic scholars of law and politics. Currently, a hybrid form of government appears to making a surge forward in China’s modern politics. The unitary system of government in China only pertains to the actual governance/political system, and fails to encompass the complexity involved in the local governments and the economics the government is involved in. In a way, China has developed a sort of democratic/authoritarian hybrid regime where members of the Party can be chosen by fellow members to serve in the government. At the local levels, more representative/democratic forms are more present, and have a minor impact on the people in China. In the end, the State Government in China still is making the decisions with the mindset that it will be the best for the majority of the people (its very utilitarian in a sense). This decision is then passed down to the respective government cadres (who are either members of the CCP or supporters of the CCP), who then work to implement the policy decisions by the government amongst the people in China. It is a top-down system of government that is quite foreign to the Western states (such as the USA, UK or Australia) who implement bottom-up democratic systems of government where the people generally choose what they feel is best for them voiced in the legislature through elected officials. While China has a government that might not be democratic in the western sense, it does utilize a system that is very complex, yet efficient at passing policy and various regulations.