03620nam a22005415i 4500 978-981-99-9714-5 DE-He213 20251030111457.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240229s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819997145 978-981-99-9714-5 10.1007/978-981-99-9714-5 doi JF20-2112 JPQ bicssc POL028000 bisacsh JPQ thema Liang, Yuqing. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72276 Sustaining Administrative Reform in China Through Path Dependence and Creation [electronic resource] : The Case of Shunde / by Yuqing Liang. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXIII, 177 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda State Governance, 2731-0841 1. Introduction -- 2.Overview of the administrative reform in China -- 3. Kick off: Government restructuring in 2009 -- 4. The second phase: Administrative licensing reform, 2010-2011 -- 5. Deepening of the administrative licensing reform: since 2012 -- 6 . The latest reforms in China：continued without substantial breakthrough -- 7. Conclusion. This book looks into the processes sustaining the administrative reform in Chinese local government and the roles of different actors during different phases by tracing a vivid administrative reform process in Shunde district, Guangdong province between 2009 and 2014. In 2008, Chinese central government initiated a new round of large-scale, top-to-bottom administrative reform—“mega-ministry” administrative reform—to address the long-lasting administrative problems. Against this background, the reforms in Shunde government (county level) operated well and sustained for several years, which was enlarged to the administrative licensing field and hence influenced China’s reforms in the following 10 years. Shunde case could allow us a better peep at the factors that contribute to the sustenance of reform. The analyses in this book find that sustenance of reform reflects, ironically, the logics of both path dependence and path creation. The past reform trajectories have created a favorable background for further reform to evolve, and a receptive ground in which exogenous forces interacted with the local reform-minded actors to create the new reform innovations. The combination of path dependence and path creation kept local reform afloat. Political science. 58714 Political planning. 57717 Public administration. 57503 Governance and Government. Public Policy. 65508 Public Administration. 57503 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819997138 Printed edition: 9789819997152 Printed edition: 9789819997169 State Governance, 2731-0841 72277 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9714-5 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 58054 58054