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By Kenneth G. Lieberthal, David M. Lampton
Utilizing a version of "fragmented authoritarianism," this quantity sharpens our view of the internal workings of the chinese language forms. The members' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and students, in addition to documentary and box learn, remove darkness from the bargaining and maneuvering between officers at the nationwide, provincial, and native degrees.
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Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China edited by Kenneth G. Lieberthal and David M. Lampton, University of California Press, 1992 Page vii To Jack W. and Mary Jane Lampton and to the memory of Milton M. Lieberthal, with love and gratitude Page ix Contents Acknowledgements xi 1. Introduction: The "Fragmented Authoritarianism" Model and Its Limitations Kenneth G. Lieberthal 1 Part I ยท National Issues 2. A Plum for a Peach: Bargaining, Interest, and Bureaucratic Politics in China David M.
Forces that influence that process and help to shape it include, inter alia, the values held by participants in this process, the structural distribution of authority and resources, and the structure of rewards. The "fragmented authoritarianism" literature touches on all three 17. I am indebted to Ezra Vogel for this insight. 18. Frederic Pryor introduces a number of different dimensions of centralization and decentralization in his Property and Industrial Organization in Communist and Capitalist Nations (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973), chap.
Instead, the reforms increased the role of bargaining in this sector, and they changed the types of resources that the various parties brought into the bargaining arena. The two key resources that structure bargaining positions regarding proposed major investment projects, according to Naughton, are control over information and skills and control over resources. The bureaucratic bargaining literature to date has emphasized the latter almost to the exclusion of the former. As is often noted elsewhere, the reforms have, on balance, shifted control over resourcesespecially over budgetary resourcesto lower bureaucratic levels in the system.