China, the West and the Myth of New Public Management

Urio, Paolo

doi:10.4324/9780203115800

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“…Many of China's communities are part of an increasingly vulnerable population, at risk from environmental and health hazards, poverty, and educational disparities (Brook and Frolic 1997;Chamberlain 1993;Luo 2012;Urio 2012).…”

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The Impact of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese NGOs

Johnson

2015

International Public Management Journal

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In this study we explore the returns to political connections in non-corporate contexts, within China, a country transitioning from a planned to market economy. Using China as an empirical case study, we investigate two separate, but related hypotheses on the financial benefits of political connections for a sample of 1,435 Chinese foundations, from 2005-2011. This extends Western donation determinants literature to a Chinese context and political guanxi (social relationships where individuals or organizations exchange future favors or gifts) research to non-corporate contexts. Our empirical results show that there is no relationship between the presence of State employees on an NGO's staff (a measure of political guanxi) and private donations. However, there is a small, but positive relationship between the amount of government funding an NGO receives (a signal of legitimacy) and private donations. These findings suggest that in postcommunist countries such as China, donors may not be seeking future favors from their contributions and instead are interested in developing a robust civil society with legitimate, high quality NGOs. Additionally, the similarity between Western donation determinants research findings and Chinese donation determinants, in this paper, requires future comparative studies of both how and why donors make decisions.

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The Impact of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese NGOs

Johnson

2015

International Public Management Journal

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“…The Chinese public health care system, set up under the state planned economy in the 1950s, has undergone a number of reform programs since the 1980s and has effectively turned public hospitals into for‐profit businesses and “patients” into “clients” (Hsiao & Hu, ; Liu & Li, ; Urio ; World Bank ). According to Ramesh and Wu (), the government contributed nearly 50 percent of public hospitals’ revenues in the 1980s; this was reduced to less than 10 percent by 2000.…”

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: Human Resource Management in Health Care and Elderly Care: Current Challenges and Toward a Research Agenda

Cooke

Bartram

2015

Human Resource Management

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“…Given the proven decisive role that ideology plays in driving contracting of welfare services elsewhere (Petersen et al, 2015), we suggest that the literature on contracting services to social organisations would be enriched by future analyses of the theoretical and ideological changes signified by contracting. As a startingpoint we need to investigate how neoliberalism or NPM entered Chinese policy agenda (Christensen et al, 2008;Urio, 2012) and scholarly analysis, and why and how these narratives are sustained.…”

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Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry

Martinez¹,

Qu²,

Howell³

2021

Social Policy and Society

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Contracting of social services has been adopted in China as an innovation in welfare provision. This article reviews the emerging literature on contracting of services to social organisations in China in order to identify lines of further enquiry. It reviews research published in the English and Chinese languages up to 2018. We identify three distinct narratives: public sector reform, improvement of welfare service quality and capacity, and transformation of state-society relations. We contrast the identified narratives with the empirical evidence produced for the Chinese case. We demonstrate that, despite contradictory empirical evidence, the premise that contracting improves public sector efficiency and quality of services predominates. The narrative that contracting transforms state-society relations is contested. This article contributes to the understanding of how contracting of services is justified in theory and practice, and proposes an agenda for future social policy research on contracting of services to social organisations in China.

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China, the West and the Myth of New Public Management

Cited by 40 publications

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The Impact of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese NGOs

The Impact of Political Connections on Donations to Chinese NGOs

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Human Resource Management in Health Care and Elderly Care: Current Challenges and Toward a Research Agenda

Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry

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