The Logic of Governance in China
An Organizational Approach
Samenvatting
Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, The Logic of Governance in China develops a unified theoretical framework to explain how China's centralized political system maintains governance and how this process produces recognizable policy cycles that are obstacles to bureaucratic rationalization, professionalism, and rule of law.
The book is unique for the overarching framework it develops; one that sheds light on the interconnectedness among apparently disparate phenomena such as the mobilizational state, bureaucratic muddling through, collusive behaviors, variable coupling between policymaking and implementation, inverted soft budget constraints, and collective action based on unorganized interests.
An exemplary combination of theory-motivated fieldwork and empirically-informed theory development, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the institutions and mechanisms in the governance of China.
Specificaties
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Part I. The Logic of Governance: Institutions and Mechanisms
2. The Chinese state and the Chinese bureaucracy: A Weberian lens
3. Modes of governance in the Chinese bureaucracy: A control rights theory
4. Campaign-style mobilization as a mechanism of governance
Part II. The Logic of Governance and Government Behavior
5. Bureaucratic bargaining in the Chinese bureaucracy
6. Collusion among local governments
7. Muddling through in the Chinese bureaucracy
8. Inverted soft budget constraint and resource extraction
Part III. The Logic of Governance and Chinese Society
9. The road to collective debt: Bureaucrats meet villagers
10. Multiple logics of village elections
11. Unorganized interests and collective action
12. Conclusion: The logic of governance and the future of China.
