| Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China |
| Acknowledgments |
 | One Introduction: The "Fragmented Authoritarianism" Model and Its Limitations |
 | Part One National Issues |
| Two A Plum for a Peach:Bargaining, Interest, and Bureaucratic Politics in China |
| Three The Chinese Political System and the Political Strategy of Economic Reform |
| • | The Relationship Between The Communist Party And The Government: Principal And Agent |
| • | The Policy-Making Process: Management By Exception |
| • | Policy Outcomes Under Management-By-Exception |
| • | Center And Locality: Federalism In A Unitary State |
| • | Conclusion: Evaluating The Political Record Of Economic Reform |
| • | References |
| Part Two The Center |
| Four The Party Leadership System |
| Five Information Flows and Policy Coordination in the Chinese Bureaucracy |
| Part Three Bureaucratic Clusters |
| Six Structure and Process in the Chinese Military System |
| Seven The Educational Policy Process: A Case Study of Bureaucratic Action in China |
| Eight The Behavior of Middlemen in the Cadre Retirement Policy Process |
| Nine Hierarchy and the Bargaining Economy: Government and Enterprise in the Reform Process |
| Part Four Subnational Levels |
| Ten Territorial Actors as Competitors for Power: The Case of Hubei and Wuhan |
| Eleven Local Bargaining Relationships and Urban Industrial Finance |
| Twelve Urbanizing Rural China: Bureaucratic Authority and Local Autonomy |
| Appendix |
| Bibliography |
| Contributors |
| Index |