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Book SynopsisExamines a range of governance reforms in the People's Republic of China, including administrative rationalization, divestiture of businesses operated by the military, and the building of anticorruption mechanisms. The author also analyzes how China's leaders have reformed institutions and constructed new ones to cope with unruly markets.
Trade Review"This book gives readers an optimistic view of political development and the state's capacity to adapt to and steer new challenges in China, and what this implies for future development in China. It substantially furthers our understanding of the changes and transformations developing within the Chinese bureaucracy."—
The China Journal"Readers will profit from the fine-grained analysis in this significant, carefully researched monograph."—
CHOICE"In what is the most comprehensive review of Chinese bureaucratic reform in any language to date, Yang details a blizzard of laws and regulations that have been adopted since the mid-1990s . . . "—
World Policy Journal"Dali Yangs new book is a stimulating work that challenges many of the received views on governance and politics in China. . . . It is a major contribution to the study of the Chinese political system."—
Pacific Affairs"Yangs volume provides the most detailed and comprehensive account of the Chinese states transition from an incoherent mix of rival corrupt agencies held loosely together by the CCP to an increasingly integrated central state apparatus.
Remaking the Chinese Leviathan moves the China field forward by engaging in a multidimensional analysis of Chinas state-building efforts over the past decade....In summary, Yangs volume is both informative and challenging."—
Governance"...Yang Dali has produced a pioneering overview of the changing parameters of the central state as it shoulders the new and important functions of regulating a fledgling market..."—
China Review InternationalTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Figures and Tables 000 A Note on Translation, Transliteration, Names, and Measures 000 Map of the PeopleAes Republic of China 000 Abbreviations 000 @toc2:1 Economic Transition and the Problem of Governance in China 000 2 Market Transition and the Remaking of the Administrative State 000 Appendix: The Composition of the State Council, 1992 and 2003 000 3 Institutional Development and the Quest for Fiscal Prowess and Market Order 000 4 The Smuggling Crisis and the Leveling of the Economic Playing Field 000 5 Administrative Rationalization and the Reorientation of Government Behavior 000 6 Market Incentives and the Disciplining of Government Discretion 000 7 Institutional Reforms and the Struggle against Corruption 000 8 Institutions of Horizontal Accountability and Good Governance: Legislative Oversight and Government Audit 000 9 Conclusions @toc4:Abbreviations for Journals, Newspapers, and Other Sources Notes Bibliography Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
