Reform with Chinese characteristics: The context of Chinese civil service reform

SE Aufrecht, LS Bun - Public Administration Review, 1995 - JSTOR
… Nearly all their reforms are labeled, "reform, with Chinese characteristics." Steven Aufrecht
and Li Siu Bun identify those Chinese characteristics most necessary to understand Chinese

The limit of bureaucratic power in organizations: The case of the Chinese bureaucracy

X Zhou, Y Ai, H Lian - Rethinking power in organizations, institutions …, 2012 - emerald.com
… We would expect similar institution-based bureaucratic experience and mentality in the
Chinese bureaucracy, which is characteristic of clear functional differentiation, long tenure, and …

Chinese bureaucracy through three lenses: Weberian, Confucian, and Marchian

X Zhou - Management and Organization Review, 2021 - cambridge.org
… These observations direct our attention to a striking characteristic of Chinese bureaucracy,
that is, the politicization of the organizational processes and authority relationship. In …

Bureaucratic politics and Chinese foreign policy-making

Z Qingmin - The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… in the remarkable Chinese characteristics of bureaucratic politics. A … characteristics offers a
starting point for the study of Chinese … of Chinese foreign policy studies from the bureaucratic

Political dynamics and bureaucratic career patterns in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1994

X Zhou - Comparative Political Studies, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
bureaucracy. The author argues that political dynamics induced by shifting state policies and
tensions between state and bureaucratic … of bureaucrats with distinctive characteristics and …

Partial reform and the Chinese bureaucracy in the post-Mao era

X Zhou - Comparative Political Studies, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
… show mixed characteristics of the Chinese bureaucracy in … of the party state on bureaucratic
personnel management. On … the promotion patterns and bureaucratic compensation. These …

Adaptation of a political bureaucracy to economic and institutional change under socialism: The Chinese state family planning system

MG Merli, Z Qian, HL Smith - Politics & Society, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
state bureaucracy associated with the control of fertility as it is with the economic bureaucracies
… Yet the SFPC’s bureaucratic character makes it an unlikely leading edge for change. …

China's new bureaucracy?

HY Lee - State and society in China, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
… of the Chinese bureaucracy has been … characteristics as impersonality, technical expertise,
and political neutrality. Neither does the Chinese model fit Karl Marx's view that bureaucracy

The iron law of fiefs: Bureaucratic failure and the problem of governance in the Chinese economic reforms

M Boisot, J Child - Administrative science quarterly, 1988 - JSTOR
… The search was to be less constrained by socialist ideology, which had tended to channel
all transactions, whatever their characteristics, into the bureaucratic mode. Providing that the …

Bureaucratic control and strategic compliance: how do subnational governments implement central guidelines in China?

S Xiao, X Zhu - Journal of Public Administration Research and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… We build a database containing 42 social regulatory guidelines issued by the Chinese State
Council (… as bureaucratic control and emphasize four main characteristics of the concept. (1) …