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 |
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 |
• | The Issue: Policy Related To Teachers |
Formal And Informal Structures In Teacher Policy |
Case Study I: Standards For Teachers |
• | The Problem of Standards and Quality |
• | The Groping Pace of Bureaucratic Action |
Actors in the Process: The Power of Subordinates |
Multiple Coping Strategies |
• | Linking To Other Agendas |
• | Using Momentum of Other Educational Reforms |
• | Closet Reforms and the Spreading of Success Stories |
Case Study II: Improving The Lot Of Teachers |
• | Summary And New Directions For Education Policy |
• | References |
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 |