AUTHORITARIAN INTEGRATIVE GOVERNANCE IN CHINA: UNDERSTANDING THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF POLITICAL RISK AVERSION

作者：Xie, Qiushan^*

来源：Public Administration and Development, 2016, 36(5): 313-329.

DOI：10.1002/pad.1778

• path dependence
• authoritarian integration
• public administration
• political risk
• collective learning

Establishing a model of public administration distinct from those of Western countries has been a long standing hope of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese government. Using the Creating a National Healthy City (CNHC) campaign as a case study, this article demonstrates evidence for an emerging authoritarian integrative governance model (AIGM) in China. Given their limited and scattered resources in terms of both bureaucratic structure and geography, local government officials cannot effectively complete the numerous tasks transferred to them from higher-level government offices. Therefore, relying on an authoritative system to integrate dispersed resources has become a rational solution. The emergence of AIGM is more contingent upon the weighing the political risks that originate from competition between different political ideologies, environmental feedback on the failure or success of solutions to bureaucratic problems are considered less significant, which furthers allow the emergence of AIGM to be an inevitable consequence.

• 出版日期2016-12
• 单位湘潭大学