Governing the Chinese Economy
Regulatory Reform in the Service of the State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6360588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret M Pearson (0000-0003-4266-9450, University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 718-730 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00755.x |
| OpenAlex | W1988809606 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 25 |
Pursuant to its extensive program of market reforms, China’s government tried to restructure itself to support a market‐dominated economy. Reform efforts have included elements that are familiar to scholars of public administration: streamlining government, strengthening bureaucratic capacity, distancing government from firms, and establishing independent regulators. But how deep have these reforms been, and with what ultimate goals? This article examines a crucial segment of the economy—China’s so‐called lifeline industries—to show how reforms to China’s economic governance system have been mapped onto an existing system characterized by extreme institutional fragmentation and an inability to imbue new governmental bodies with authority. Moreover, for these key industrial sectors, the Chinese party‐state’s strong interests in ownership, revenues, and social policy dictate that it use a variety of tools to protect these interests
Bureaucracy · Business · China · Corporate governance · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Planned economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Revenue · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Finance · Public Administration
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Government discretion
Signalling through the noise
The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy
The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on China's Banking Sector
Market Creation by Leninist Means
Whose China Model is it anyway? The contentious search for consensus
Diffusion, transmutation, and regulatory regime in socialist market economies
Rent-seeking at Home, Capturing Market Share Abroad
Mapping the evolution of the central government apparatus in China
The institutional origin of private entrepreneurs’ policy influence in China
The hybrid regulatory regime in turbulent times
China's Hybrid Adaptive Bureaucracy
With Strings Attached? Improving the Administration of Central State Financed Investment Projects in the PRC
Workplace-Based Connection
Freer markets, more rules
Forging Reform in China
Remaking the Chinese Leviathan
Growing Out of the Plan
Regulating Europe
The Theory of Economic Regulation
In Search of Prosperity
Industrial Policy, Chinese-Style
The Illicit Asset Stripping of Chinese State Firms
Interests, Institutions, and Positive Theory
Reinventing Government in China
Translating Theoretical Ideas into Modern State Reform
State-building
The Civil Service under One Country, Two Systems
Is Japan Really Changing Its Ways? Regulatory Reform and the Japanese Economy
Growing Out of the Plan
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |