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The Logic of Governance in China

The Logic of Governance in China

The Logic of Governance in China

An Organizational Approach
Xueguang Zhou , Stanford University, California
October 2022
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Paperback
9781009159401

    Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, The Logic of Governance in China develops a unified theoretical framework to explain how China's centralized political system maintains governance and how this process produces recognizable policy cycles that are obstacles to bureaucratic rationalization, professionalism, and rule of law. The book is unique for the overarching framework it develops; one that sheds light on the interconnectedness among apparently disparate phenomena such as the mobilizational state, bureaucratic muddling through, collusive behaviors, variable coupling between policymaking and implementation, inverted soft budget constraints, and collective action based on unorganized interests. An exemplary combination of theory-motivated fieldwork and empirically-informed theory development, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the institutions and mechanisms in the governance of China.

    • Establishes an integrated framework to understand the underlying logic of governance in China
    • Combines theoretical and empirical research
    • Makes sense of a wide array of political and social phenomena and paradoxes in contemporary China

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    October 2022
    Paperback
    9781009159401
    350 pages
    226 × 152 × 21 mm
    0.54kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction: The logic of governance in China
    • Part I. The Logic of Governance: Institutions and Mechanisms:
    • 2. The Chinese state and the Chinese bureaucracy: A Weberian lens
    • 3. Modes of governance in the Chinese bureaucracy: A control rights theory
    • 4. Campaign-style mobilization as a mechanism of governance
    • Part II. The Logic of Governance and Government Behavior:
    • 5. Bureaucratic bargaining in the Chinese bureaucracy
    • 6. Collusion among local governments
    • 7. Muddling through in the Chinese bureaucracy
    • 8. Inverted soft budget constraint and resource extraction
    • Part III. The Logic of Governance and Chinese Society:
    • 9. The road to collective debt: Bureaucrats meet villagers
    • 10. Multiple logics of village elections
    • 11. Unorganized interests and collective action
    • 12. Conclusion: The logic of governance and the future of China.
      Author
    • Xueguang Zhou

      Xueguang Zhou is Kwoh-ting Li Professor of Economic Development, Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies at Stanford University. He publishes widely on topics related to governance, state-making, government bureaucracy, and social inequality in contemporary China.

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