Chinese Public Administration: Change with Continuity during Political and Economic Development

Tsao, King K.; Worthley, John A.

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“…Chinese AR is technically inseparable from political and economic dynamics (Tsao and Worthley 1995). Chinese economic reform efforts have been extended into political and administrative arenas to meet the demands of economic development.…”

Section: Civil Service Reform and New Directionmentioning

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“…Chinese economic reform efforts have been extended into political and administrative arenas to meet the demands of economic development. In the 13th National Congress of the CPC, China attempted to introduce the principle of functional separation of the Party from the government and the government from enterprises (Huang and Lu 1991;Gu 1992;Burns 1989;1993a;1993b;Tsao and Worthley 1995). The "Regulations on State Functionaries" of 1993 made a conceptual distinction between political and career officials, categorizing leadership (1-8 grade) and non-leadership (9-19 grade) positions (Tsao and Worthley 1995).…”

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Shaping Administrative Reform and Governance: An Examination of the Political Nexus Triads in Three Asian Countries

Moon

Ingraham

1998

Governance

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When addressing administrative reform, many scholars have referred to the fact that governments confront multiple internal challenges such as fiscal stress, distrust of bureaucracy, and higher demands for public services (Peters and Savoie 1995). Externally, governments become more sensitive to global issues and tend to be more influenced by international environments (Garcia‐Zamor and Khator 1994). Faced with internal and external challenges, governments seek new paradigms for governance (Ingraham and Romzek 1994) and often initiate administrative reform (AR) aimed at enhancing governmental performance and improving the administrative system through technological advances, managerial improvements, administrative innovations and continued enhancement of administrative capabilities (Caiden 1991). Administrative reform and its diffusion among Western countries are well documented in the literature (Campbell and Peters 1988; Savoie 1994; Halligan 1996; Peters and Savoie 1995). However, studies are skewed toward Western countries and little attention has been paid to Asia. Even less attention has been paid to comparative studies on Asian administrative reform, even though many Asian countries have developed their own AR trajectories to improve public efficiency and productivity (Burns 1994; Zhang, De Guzman, and Reforma 1992). As many students of comparative public administration (CPA) understand, it is always a challenging task, both methodologically and theoretically, to examine a group of different countries (Aberbach and Rockman 1987; Heady 1996a; 1996b; Peters 1988; Peters 1996). It is an even more challenging and controversial task to develop a single comparative framework from which we can examine different countries. This article attempts to fill a gap in the literature by examining Asian AR from a comparative perspective. First, we propose an exploratory theoretical framework, a Political Nexus Triad (PNT). PNT is an extended model, which adds civil society as the third dimension to the traditional politics‐administration model. We suggest the PNT and its dynamic trajectory as a building block of the comparative study of Asian administrative reform. This is similar to the power interaction models in which Peters (1988) addresses the power interactions between politicians and bureaucrats.1 Second, we examine the conventional patterns of PNT for three Asian countries: China, Japan, and Korea. Third, we survey AR of the three countries, focusing on actors, contents and potential impacts to the new PNT. Finally, we discuss conclusions and comparisons

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Section: Civil Service Reform and New Directionmentioning

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Shaping Administrative Reform and Governance: An Examination of the Political Nexus Triads in Three Asian Countries

Moon

Ingraham

1998

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“…Many scholars have studied China's public administration reform, stressing the impact of experiences from developed countries, and particularly Western models of bureaucracy (for example, Tsao and Worthley Abbott, ; Lan, ; Jing (); Xue and Zhong, ), or comparing the similarities and differences between Chinese public administration reform and models that have traditionally been considered the products of developed Western countries (Zhang and Straussman, ; Christensen, Dong, and Painter, ). For instance, Jing () argued that Chinese public administration is steadily marching toward globalization and modernization.…”

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Authoritarian Integrative Governance in China: Understanding the Crucial Role of Political Risk Aversion

Xie

2016

Public Admin & Development

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Summary Establishing a model of public administration distinct from those of Western countries has been a long standing hope of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese government. Using the Creating a National Healthy City (CNHC) campaign as a case study, this article demonstrates evidence for an emerging authoritarian integrative governance model (AIGM) in China. Given their limited and scattered resources in terms of both bureaucratic structure and geography, local government officials cannot effectively complete the numerous tasks transferred to them from higher‐level government offices. Therefore, relying on an authoritative system to integrate dispersed resources has become a rational solution. The emergence of AIGM is more contingent upon the weighing the political risks that originate from competition between different political ideologies, environmental feedback on the failure or success of solutions to bureaucratic problems are considered less significant, which furthers allow the emergence of AIGM to be an inevitable consequence. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…As we warned in our article, "Although some may ideologically lament this reality (namely the continued dominance of the Chinese communist party along with the pursuit of a market economy) analyses that avoid it risk becoming intellectually astigmatic" (Tsao and Worthley, 1995;172). Two factors underlie our approach to analyzing Chinese public administration and differentiate it from the approach of Professors Lam and Chan.…”

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Chinese Public Administration: Change with Continuity during Political and Economic Development

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Shaping Administrative Reform and Governance: An Examination of the Political Nexus Triads in Three Asian Countries

Shaping Administrative Reform and Governance: An Examination of the Political Nexus Triads in Three Asian Countries

Authoritarian Integrative Governance in China: Understanding the Crucial Role of Political Risk Aversion

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