This book aims to discover the conditions under which public private partnerships may provide a viable alternative to the provision of public services and infrastructures by the state, while achieving efficient, sustainable, peaceful, and equitable development in four transition countries: China, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.

Analysing post-Mao China is not an easy task, but it is essential in order to understand the rationale and scope of the reform process started by the Chinese leadership under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping at the end of the 1970s. Thirty years after the beginning of the reform process China has become a major actor in the global economic and political system and the 21st century is generally held to the one in which China will become the major world power.

In this book Paolo Urio presents a balanced picture of the reform process, analysing the economic, social, environmental, legal,...

In the West, innovations in new public management (NPM) have been regarded as part of the neoliberal project, whilst in China, these reforms have emerged from a very different economic and social landscape. Despite these differences however, similar measures to those introduced in the West have been adopted by the Chinese state, which has largely abandoned the planned economy and adopted market mechanisms in the pursuit of improved economic efficiency and growth. Evaluating the results of these reforms in both China and the West between 1978 and 2011, this book shows that despite substantial...

This title compares the innovations introduced in public management in China and in the West between 1978 and 2008.

Depuis le debut des reformes en 1978, l'Etat-Parti chinois a diminue son emprise sur la societe et a accorde aux organisations non-gouvernementales (ONG) un nouvel espace de liberte. Mais, en meme temps, il a limite leur marge de manoeuvre de facon significative. Quelles sont les raisons qui expliquent cette strategie apparemment contradictoire ? Pour repondre a cette question cette recherche a ete fondee sur l'hypothese suivante: d'une part les ONG sont necessaires pour remplir le vide laisse par l'Etat dans le social, mais d'autre part elles representent une menace pour le pouvoir du Parti....