Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China

ISBN-13: 9780415723596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 238 str.

Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China  2. Looking West: The Impact of Western Ideas on Public Sector Reform Policies in China  3. Transitional Meritocracy? Institutions and Practices of Personnel Management in State-Building in Contemporary China  4. Digital Monitoring and Public Administrative Reform in China  5. Public Sector Reform in China: Who is Losing Out?  6. Health Sector Reforms in Contemporary China: A Political Perspective  7. China’s Centrally-Managed State-Owned Enterprises: Dilemma and Reform  8. Creating Corporate Goups to Strengthen China’s State-Owned Enterprises  9. China’s Bureaucratic Capitalism: Creating the Corporate Steel Sector  10. Public Sector Units in India and China: Inefficient Producers or Creators of Crucial Knowledge Assets?  11. Public Sector Reforms and Political Discourse in India and China

O autorze

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard is Professor and Director of the Asia Research Centre at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark