Policy Studies Review articles from March 2001

Policy Studies Review archives from March 2001

ISSUES IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORM IN CHINA: Introduction to the Symposium.
March 22, 2001... CHANGING FACES AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS Public management reform in China did not begin with a comprehensive and far-reaching vision, but has grown steadily as the cumulative results of fragmented changes and incremental adjustments...

SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS IN CHINA: Reforms and Institutional Constraints.
March 22, 2001... SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: THE BIG SHADOW OF THE STATE In a socialist state such as China, the public sector is expansive, so much so that before the reform era it was virtually impossible to distinguish between the state and society, and...

INSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEM OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Service Organizations as an Alternative for Administrative Enhancement.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION After more than a decade of systematic efforts in developing environmental policy and building environmental institutions since the promulgation of the first draft of the Environmental Protection Law in 1979, China has...

RESTRUCTURING CHINA'S WELFARE REGIME AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: A Case Study.
March 22, 2001... For half a century since 1949 a colossal welfare regime has been built in China, and it has been deeply entrenched in the structure of the Centrally Planned Economy (CPE). In the recovery from the devastation of the radical politics of Mao's...

COMMODIFICATION OF HOUSING WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION For a period of thirty years since its inauguration in 1949, the Chinese communist government had generally observed the socialist principles in the management of the housing sector. These principles were, as shared by the...

FIZZ, FROTH, FLAT: The Challenge of Converting China's SOEs into Shareholding Corporations.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION China in the 1990s began converting its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into shareholding corporations in an attempt to make them more market-oriented. Much of the literature on corporate reforms to SOEs (Nee & Stark, 1989;...

TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHINA: Commercialization Reforms in the Science and Technology Sector.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION During the 1950s, China had established a comprehensive system of public organizations engaged in research and development, relying to a large degree on the assistance of the Soviet Union. This system was gradually extended to...

FEDERAL POLICY IN LOCAL CONTEXT: PUZZLING THROUGH THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PARADIGMATIC POLICY REFORM.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION In response to the global debt crisis, which erupted in 1982, one country after another has abandoned Keynesian demand management and import-substituting industrialization policies to focus on "macroconomic stabilization" (of...

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEAT LAWS IN THE FIFTY STATES.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION Injuries remain the leading cause of death among children in the United States, with motor vehicle accidents the most common source of these injury deaths (Waller, Baker, and Szocka, 1989; National Safety Council, 1993). Since...

NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION With relatively few exceptions, like the economic theory of bureaucracy (Downs, 1957; Niskanen, 1972) and its derivative notion of bureaucratic failure, economists have ignored public sector organisations. If the core...

FEDERAL POLICY IN LOCAL CONTEXT: The Influence of Local State-Societal Relations on Endangered Species Act Implementation.
March 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION Several researchers during the past decade have called for the decentralization of natural resource and environmental bureaucracies (Luton, 1996; Light, 1995; Mazmanian & Morell, 1992; Ingram & Smith, 1993), challenging...