| 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 |
| • | A Comparative Framework For Viewing Bargaining |
| • | The Systematic Causes Of Bargaining Activity |
| • | What Do Leaders Bargain Over? |
| Water Projects: The Bargaining Process Up Close |
| Who Bargains, In What Arenas, And What Strategies Are Employed? |
| • | Who Bargains? |
| • | In What Arenas Does Bargaining Occur? |
| Strategies for Bargaining and the Necessary Resources |
| • | The Implications Of A Bargaining System View |
| Three The Chinese Political System and the Political Strategy of Economic Reform |
| 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 |