TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liang,Yuqing
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Sustaining Administrative Reform in China Through Path Dependence and Creation: The Case of Shunde 
T2  - State Governance,
SN  - 9789819997145
AV  - JF20-2112 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Political science
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Governance and Government
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Public Administration
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9714-5
ER  -