Remaking China's Public Management

by Peter Lee, Carlos Lo

Overview

Well-traveled throughout China and well-published on its political, cultural, and business aspects, the editors of this unusual new book and their contributing authors give a systematic analysis of public sector management—as it is now and as it is emerging—in a country of massive size, now in retreat from a centrally planned economy. Many features of the new reforms parallel the movement toward new public management in the West. Functions have been transferred away from China's public sector, including the government, and into the private sector, and many of the managerial tools common in the private sector have been introduced into the public sector. The book thus analyzes the logic, mechanisms, and designs of new public management in China. It examines context-bound issues, in the light of the legacies of massive state intervention, the transition away from centralized planning, the structure of the Leninist party-state, and Chinese bureaucratic culture. Finally it discusses and illustrates events in a variety of policy areas, and in doing so, draws upon unique interviews and field studies developed personally by each contributor. The result is an important insight into China and how its public sector operates, one that will have special value for professionals in international development, finance, banking, government, economics, politics, and for their academic colleagues as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567203370
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/30/2000
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

PETER NAN-SHONG LEE is a Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong./e A specialist in matters of public policy and management in China, he was among the first scholars to attempt a study of the rise of state corporatism in reformed China. He has held numerous positions in Hong Kong's academic community, and is author, editor, or coeditor of five earlier books.

CARLOS WING-HUNG LO is Associate Professor in the Department of Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University./e He is author of three previous books and specializes in Chinese law, public sector management, and environmental management.

Table of Contents

Remaking China's Public Management: An Introduction by Peter Nan-Shong Lee and Carlos Wing Hung Lo
Organizational Modes and Boundary Problems in China's Public Management
Reforming the Shadow of the State: Institutional Constraints and the Service Organizations in China by Lam Tao-chiu and James L. Perry
Service Organizations in the Environmental Governance System of the People's Republic of China by Carlos Wing Hung Lo, Jack Man-Keung Lo, and Kai-Chee Cheung
The Alternative Modes of Welfare Provisions
The Provision of Occupational Benefits in the Chinese Industrial Sector: The Case Study of Guangzhou by Peter Nan-Shong Lee
The Tale of the Two Chinese Cities: Institutional Dependency of Residents in Shangai and Guangzhou by Peter Nan-Shong and Chak-Kee Wong
Managed Care Systems in the People's Republic of China by Peter P. Yuen and Hong Yan
Commodification of Housing Provision in Urban China by Rebecca L.H. Chiu
Commercialization, Corporation, and Marketization
From Bureau to Corporation: Remaking the Ownership Structure of China's State-Owned Enterprises by Christopher A. McNally
Falling Flat: The Challenge of Corporatizing China's State Industry by Elizabeth M. Freund
The Commercialization of Technology in China by Erik Baark
Conflict Resolution in Remaking China's Public Management
Win-Win Policy and Reform China by Stuart S. Nagel
Conclusion by Peter Nan-Shong Lee and Carlos Wing Hung Lo
Index

Editorial Reviews

The new public management (NPM) has emerged as one of the most salient theoretical trends in the countries of Europe and North America. Essentially a part of the "New Right", NPM advocates the introduction of such mechanisms as property rights, profit, and markets as remedies to the failures and limitations of the public sector. This book examines the relatively new phenomenon of China's implementation of NPM, beginning in the early 1980s with the extensive employment of service organizations for public management. Intellectually a result of the International Conference on Public Sector Management Reform in China (June, 1997) this volume includes sections on boundary issues and new organizational modes, alternative modes of welfare provisions, commercialization, corporation and marketization, and conflict resolution in remaking China's public management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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