The Road to Collaborative Governance in China

ISBN-13: 9781137525192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 241 str.

Yijia Jing

Opis

China's transformation from a planned regime to a marketized and liberalized society has created unprecedented socioeconomic changes and challenges as well as new resources, capacities, and solutions. Collaborative governance (CG), the sharing of power and discretion between and within public, private, and nonprofit sectors for public purposes, has been increasingly adopted in China in response to daunting service demands and governance deficits. Using primary data and rigorous analysis, contributors offer perspectives on frontier developments of CG in China in areas such as elderly service delivery, environmental protection, disaster response, and infrastructure building with solid data and up-to-date analytical methods. In addition to a general theoretical examination of CG, this volume explores particular characters of CG as it's been adopted in China, contextual effects and consequences, and implications for future governance in China.

Recenzje

"An important, unique, and detailed look at China's profound transformation through collaborative governance, a policy that might have been called 'public-private partnerships' or even 'privatization' in other settings. Professor Yijia Jing, a rising star in China's famed Fudan University, brings together Chinese scholars (plus two Westerners in China) to present an impressively wide array of examples of collaborative governance including e-government, construction of national highways, local government services, and care of the elderly. Jing's powerful introduction is an insightful analysis of the State's deepening engagement with the private and nonprofit sectors of society." - E. S. Savas, Presidential Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA

"Yijia Jing is to be congratulated for bringing together an excellent collection that provides new and valuable insights on public policy creation and implementation in China, using the theoretical framework of collaborative governance. Combining novel empirical case studies with an integrative theoretical framework, this work sheds important light on key areas of public policy in China. A 'must read' for any student of either China or the collaborative governance paradigm." - Stephen P. Osborne, University of Edinburgh, UK; founder and editor of Public Management Review; and founder of the International Research Society for Public Management

"Many know of China's strong state, its entrepreneurs, and rapidly developing economy. Few, however, know that China's local governments are actively embracing collaboration with the private and nonprofit sectors to create public value. This intriguing volume, assembled by Professor Yijia Jing, analyzes initiatives in collaborative governance from Taiwan and Hong Kong to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia; from infrastructure and elderly care services to disaster management and e-government. This book is vital reading for anyone seeking to understand China's distinctive approach to collaborative governance." - Richard Zeckhauser, Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, USA

O autorze

Bin Chen, Baruch College of the City University of New York, USA and Tongji University, China Beilei Yang, Shanghai Tongji University, China Shanshan Zou, Tongji University, China Helen Liu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Berthold Kuhn, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Lihua Yang, Beihang University, China Jesper Schlæger, Sichuan University, China Mingfeng Kuo, Sichuan University, China Chun-yuan Wang, Taiwan Central Police University, Taiwan Tzung-Shiun Li, Taiwan Central Police University, Taiwan Guangjian Xu, Renmin University, China Ying Wu, Renmin University, China Jie Ma, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Liming Suo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Elaine Yi Lu, City University of New York, USA