State of the field: research on public policy and public administration in China

Zang, Xiaowei; Chan, Hon S.

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“…Overall, China's unique policy‐making process limits the applicability of Western‐based theoretical frameworks for public policy (Moran et al, 2006; Zang et al, 2020). Governance in China's post‐1978 “Reform” era is frequently described as “fragmented” (Lieberthal & Lampton, 1992; Mertha, 2009) and “adaptive” (Heilmann & Perry, 2011) in ways that infuse the economy with institutionalized structured uncertainty (Breznitz & Murphree, 2011), characterized by persistently weak legal institutions (Delisle, 2019), frequent institutional changes (Miao et al, 2018), and weak enforcement in areas like antitrust (Zhang, 2021) and intellectual property (Mertha, 2007).…”

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Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy

2023

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The online platform economy in China has grown to become one of the largest in the world. Its growth has contributed to China's economic development and played an important role in its innovation path. We present a three‐stage structured explanation of China's governance approaches toward its homegrown platform firms. Using Chinese government documents and secondary sources to conduct a historical process tracing analysis, we argue that the growth of China's main platform firms and the government's governance of them was co‐evolutionary, guided by the party‐state's goals of maintaining social‐political stability, economic growth and strengthening technological self‐sufficiency. By so doing this paper addresses the fundamental question of how a “strong” and “capable” state such as China's has responded as platform firms went from providing various online services to becoming core infrastructure in the economy and society to the point of threatening core government objectives.

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Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy

2023

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Theme-Based Book Review: Public Administration in China

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2023

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Governance and public administration in China

2022

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Pressing new (and old) challenges have put systems of governance and public administration under pressure around the globe. In this era, there is an ever greater need to globalise academic knowledge and learn from divergent systems. China has traditionally been held up as a suis generis exemplar of a particular mode of governance. An updated understanding of modern China and Chinese research on public administration stands to enrich the discipline by challenging old myths and assumptions or by empirically demonstrating some enduring features. G geopolitical significance, it is also an important focus of study. This article outlines the key features of the Chinese system of government, governance and public administration. It maps the contours of the evolution of the study of public administration in China from the start of the twentieth century to a more mature and globally connected discipline in the present day. It also summarises articles in this volume which shed new light on power, governance and public administration in modern China. They also provide new insights into governance and public administration theory. The volume shows that China has seen some localisation and decentralisation, alongside experiments with collaboration and networked based policy making. However, the system of governance and public administration remains innately top-down and centralised with the center holding strong policy levers and control over society. As the pandemic revealed, this statist approach provided both governing opportunities and disadvantages.

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State of the field: research on public policy and public administration in China

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy

Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy

Theme-Based Book Review: Public Administration in China

Governance and public administration in China

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