| 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 |
| • | Evolution Of The Leadership System |
| Norms Of The Leadership System |
| • | Functional Systems and Coordinating Points |
| Division of Responsibilities |
| • | Policy-making |
| • | Coordination |
| • | Innovation |
| • | Supervision |
| • | Personnel |
| • | Lines of Authority |
| Chronic Problems And Post-Mao Reforms |
| Politburo Leadership Arrangements |
| • | Conclusion |
| • | Appendix A: Typical Central Leading Units |
| • | Appendix B: Leadership Mechanisms |
| • | Appendix C: Evolution Of Political Reform Group |
| • | Appendix D: Coordination Points For Management Of International Activities (1958) |
| 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 |