Governance and Public Administration in China

ISBN-13: 9781032350820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 234 str.

Opis

China has traditionally been held around the world as architype of centralised governance and top-down system of public administration. But to what extent does this remain true of modern China? This book provides updated perspective on modern China through a series of cutting edge, original studies focusing on public administration in China.

Spis treści

Introduction: Governance and public administration in China: the evolution of a polity and a discipline  Part 1: Power, governance and public administration  1. Networked environmental governance: formal and informal collaborative networks in local China  2. More “Government”, less “Governance”: Chinese public employees’ preferences for governing public service delivery  3. Policy coordination in the talent war to achieve economic upgrading: the case of four Chinese cities  4. Government strategies in addressing three protests against PX plants in urban China: comparing cases using a most-similar-system design  5. Government annual report: decision usefulness, information accessibility and policy communication efficiency – Observations from 19 Chinese cities  6. Punctuations and diversity: exploring dynamics of attention allocation in China’s E-government agenda  Part 2: What works with wicked problems  7. Government size and citizen satisfaction in China: evidence that accommodates two contrasting views  8. Towards effective mobilization of social participation: from an instrumental approach to a value-oriented approach in China  9. The relationship between the application and effects of science and its influencing factors: an empirical study in northern China  10. Explaining social insurance participation: the importance of the social construction of target groups in China  11. Campaign-style crisis regime: how China responded to the shock of COVID-19