Globalization And Public Sector Reform In China

Author : Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317934288

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Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard Pdf

This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realize that efficient public administration is key to securing the regime’s governing capacity and its future survival. The book shows how thinking about public sector reform has shifted in recent decades from a quantitative emphasis on 'small government', which involved the reduction in size of what was perceived as a bloated bureaucracy, to an emphasis on the quality of governance, which may result in an increase in public sector personnel. The book shows how, although Western ideas about public sector reform have had an impact, Chinese government continues to be best characterized as 'state capitalism', with the large state-owned enterprises continuing to play an important – and increasing – role in the economy and in business. However, state-owned enterprises no longer provide care for large numbers of people from the cradle to the grave – finding an alternative, efficient way of delivering basic welfare and health care is the big challenge facing China’s public sector.

Author : Keping Yu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047442554

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Globalization and Changes in China's Governance by Keping Yu Pdf

China’s structure of governance has also been substantially altered in response to globalization. A unique model of political development is underway in China, which differs considerably from those conceived under both traditional socialist and liberal Western models. This volume tackles these issues of global importance through the analytical prowess of one of China’s leading intellectuals.

Author : Anthony Cheung,Jane C. Y. Lee
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9629960117

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Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong by Anthony Cheung,Jane C. Y. Lee Pdf

In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As Edward D. Berkowitz demonstrates, the end of the postwar economic boom, Watergate, and defeat in Vietnam led to an unraveling of the national consensus. During the decade, ideas about the United States, how it should be governed, and how its economy should be managed changed dramatically. Berkowitz argues that the postwar faith in sweeping social programs and a global U.S. mission was replaced by a more skeptical attitude about government's ability to positively affect society. From Woody Allen to Watergate, from the decline of the steel industry to the rise of Bill Gates, and from Saturday Night Fever to the Sunday morning fervor of evangelical preachers, Berkowitz captures the history, tone, and spirit of the seventies. He explores the decade's major political events and movements, including the rise and fall of détente, congressional reform, changes in healthcare policies, and the hostage crisis in Iran. The seventies also gave birth to several social movements and the "rights revolution," in which women, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities all successfully fought for greater legal and social recognition. At the same time, reaction to these social movements as well as the issue of abortion introduced a new facet into American political life-the rise of powerful, politically conservative religious organizations and activists. Berkowitz also considers important shifts in American popular culture, recounting the creative renaissance in American film as well as the birth of the Hollywood blockbuster. He discusses how television programs such as All in the Family and Charlie's Angels offered Americans both a reflection of and an escape from the problems gripping the country.

Author : Doug Guthrie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415949910

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China and Globalization by Doug Guthrie Pdf

China and Globalizationis a compact, highly readable introductory text on contemporary China and the massive changes it is presently undergoing. It focuses primarily on how economic structural change is driving the processes, but discusses many other issues as well--politics, social change, reform, international economics, and cultural change. In its quarter-century long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed from a desperately poor nation into a country possessing one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie covers the social, economic, and political factors responsible for the revolutionary changes, and interweaves this broader structural analysis with a consideration of social changes at the micro and macro levels. The book also considers the potential for further change. Will China become more democratic? Will the government become more serious about protecting human rights and creating a transparent legal system? How will China's explosive growthimpact both East Asia and the larger global economy? In sum, this will be a sophisticated, definitive yet compact overview of the effects of massive social, economic, and political reforms on the most populous nation in the world. Books in this series look at how nations and regions across the world are navigating the tumultuous currents of globalization. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, they serve as ideal introductions to the peoples and places of our increasingly globalized world.

Author : David Bray,Elaine Jeffreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317422365

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New Mentalities of Government in China by David Bray,Elaine Jeffreys Pdf

China continues to transform apace, flowing from the forces of deregulation, privatization and globalization unleashed by economic reforms which began in late 1978. The dramatic scope of economic change in China is often counterposed to the apparent lack of political change as demonstrated by continued Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule. However, the ongoing dominance of the CCP belies the fact that much has also changed in relation to practices of government, including how authorities and citizens interact in the management of daily life. New Mentalities of Government in China examines how the privatization and professionalization of ‘public’ service provision is transforming the nature of government and everyday life in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The book addresses key theoretical questions on the nature of government in China and documents the emergence of a range of ‘new mentalities of government’ in China. Its chapters focus on areas such as clinical trials, conceptualizing government, consumer activity, elite philanthropy, lifestyle and beauty advice, public health, social work, volunteering; and urban and rural planning. Offering a topical examination of shifting modes of governance in contemporary China, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, politics and sociology.

Author : Yongnian Zheng
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812706805

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De Facto Federalism in China by Yongnian Zheng Pdf

This book is the first attempt to conceptualize ChinaOCOs central-local relations from the behavioral perspective. Although China does not have a federalist system of government, the author believes that, with deepening reform and openness, ChinaOCOs central-local relations is increasingly functioning on federalist principles. Federalism as a functioning system in China is under studied. The author defines the political system existing in China as OC de facto federalismOCO, and provides a detailed analysis of its sources and dynamics in the book. The system is mainly driven by two related factors OCo inter-governmental decentralization and globalization. While economic decentralization since the 1980s has led to the formation of de facto federalism, globalization since the 1990s has accelerated this process and generated increasingly high pressure on the Chinese leadership to institutionalize de facto federalism by various measures of selective recentralization."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134221523

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China's Reforms and International Political Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony Cheung,Ian Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135786816

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Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia by Anthony Cheung,Ian Scott Pdf

Based on new field research, this book assesses the current state of governance and public sector reforms in eleven Asian countries and jurisdictions, especially in the wake of the recent regional financial crisis that seriously affected some of them. It analyses reform efforts comparatively against a backdrop of governance problems, and seeks to establish whether these efforts represent a substantive shift in attitudes towards reform or whether they serve simply to reinforce existing practices. The authors explore a number of important themes that are central to governance and public sector reform issues. These include the role of the state, the success or failure of organizational reforms, corruption, the applicability of the new public management model in the Asian context, and the governance values and reform models promoted by regional and international agencies.

Author : Yukai WANG
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811626937

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A Report on China’s Administration Reform by Yukai WANG Pdf

This book traces the history of China’s administrative reform in the past 35 years, focusing on the three phases of development, four guidelines and five major tasks of the reform since it is of great value to depict the entire process of China’s administrative system reform, analyzing the achievements, problems and prospects of the reform, and exploring experiences and lessons from the relationship between the administrative system reform and China’s economic, social and government transformation.

Author : Catherine Jones Finer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351761420

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Social Policy Reform in China by Catherine Jones Finer Pdf

This title was first published in 2003.The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a timely example of social policy reform in a socialist market economy. This important and topical edited collection brings together leading Chinese and Western experts to introduce and integrate policy issues of the PRC into the mainstream of cross-national social policy debate. Drawing upon comparativist expertise in relevant aspects of social policy, the book explores the ways in which the PRC has or has not taken lessons from abroad in key social policy respects and illustrates policy-relevant relations between Chinese and Western perspectives. The contributors identify those aspects of China’s recent social policy reforms that seem the most and least likely to appeal to Western societies. The collection therefore represents a substantial advance in two-way, East-West lesson learning in social and public policy.

Author : Ka-Ho Mok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400709560

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Centralization and Decentralization by Ka-Ho Mok Pdf

Globalization has brought dramatic changes to the character and functions of education in most countries around the world. However, the impact of globalization on schools and universities is not uniform. One public-policy strategy that has been widely adopted is decentralization; but there is no consensus on whether centralization or decentralization is more effective to improve organization and management in education. This book is contextualized in the literature on globalization, and examines how policies of decentralization have affected the running of education in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai, Singapore, Macau and Mainland China. It analyzes the strategies that the governments of the selected societies have adopted in reforming the structure of education systems, mobilizing different forces to create more educational opportunities, and devising new measures to assure quality in the education sector.

Author : Richard Schiere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1135171637

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China's Development Challenges by Richard Schiere Pdf

Author : Jean-François Huchet,Xavier Richet,Joel Ruet
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8171885829

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Globalisation in China, India, and Russia by Jean-François Huchet,Xavier Richet,Joel Ruet Pdf

No study of globalization is complete without an analysis of these formerly socialist players, according to this collection of essays on the current posture between government and global firms in China, India, and Russia. Points of comparison include bureaucracy, corporate governance, economic reform, foreign investment, privatization, productivity and competitiveness, subcontracting, and the size of the remaining public sector.

Author : Russell Smyth,On Kit Tam,Malcolm Warner,Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134283262

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China's Business Reforms by Russell Smyth,On Kit Tam,Malcolm Warner,Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu Pdf

Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. The editors examine the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world.

Author : Bill K. P. Chou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415437042

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Government and Policy-making Reform in China by Bill K. P. Chou Pdf

China’s rapid economic development has not translated automatically into political development, with many of its institutions still in need of major reform. In the post-Mao era, despite the decentralization of local government with significant administrative and fiscal authority, China’s government and policy-making processes have retained much of the inefficiency and corruption characteristic of the earlier period. This book analyzes the implementation of government and policy-making reform in China, focusing in particular on the reform programmes instituted since the early 1990s. It considers all the important areas of reform, including the enhancement of policy-making capacity, reform of taxation and fund transfer policies, tightening of financial control, civil service reform and market deregulation. Bill K.P Chou assesses the course of policy reform in each of these areas, considers how successful reforms have been, and outlines what remains to be done. In particular, he explores the impact on the reform process of China’s entry into the WTO in 2001, demonstrating that the process of reform in China has been one of continuous conflict between the agenda of political elites in central government, and the priorities of local leaders, with local agents often distorting, delaying or ignoring the policies emanating from the central government.