Regulating Decentralization in China

In the third paper, Chung, who examines China's administrative hierarchy and its built-in mechanisms through a case study of territory adjustment and institution building in Guangdong province, argues that the state has allowed economically successful or important administrative districts such...

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Published in:China review (Hong Kong, China : 1991) China : 1991), 2008-10, Vol.8 (2), p.131-133
Main Authors: Wong, Shiufai, Painter, Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrative law
Capitalism
Case studies
Civil society
Commercial regulation
Decentralization
Districts
Economic regulation
Governance
Hierarchies
Higher education
Institution building
Public administration
Regulatory reform
State power
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Summary:In the third paper, Chung, who examines China's administrative hierarchy and its built-in mechanisms through a case study of territory adjustment and institution building in Guangdong province, argues that the state has allowed economically successful or important administrative districts such as Guangzhou to expand their local administrative systems across time and space, in such a way that the systems have actually become an institutional mechanism for party-state authorities to formally regulate local regimes. [...]despite the subsequent introduction of civil or market-based regulatory regimes to streamline the decentralization process, the state's social and market development goals cannot be attained without input from a complementary party-state power. [...]the regulation of decentralization in China rests on a complex combination of statutory/professional and party/administrative regulatory mechanisms. * The editors gratefully acknowledge financial sponsorship from the workshop "Decentralization and Varieties of Regulatory Capitalism in China" held on 29-30 January 2007 by the Governance in Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong.
ISSN:1680-2012