The Road to Collaborative Governance in China

by Jing, Yijia

• ISBN13: 9781137525192
• ISBN10: 1137525193
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

China's transformation from a planned regime to a marketized and liberalized society has created unprecedented socioeconomic changes and challenges as well as new resources, capacities, and solutions. Collaborative governance (CG), the sharing of power and discretion between and within public, private, and nonprofit sectors for public purposes, has been increasingly adopted in China in response to daunting service demands and governance deficits. Using primary data and rigorous analysis, contributors offer perspectives on frontier developments of CG in China in areas such as elderly service delivery, environmental protection, disaster response, and infrastructure building with solid data and up-to-date analytical methods. In addition to a general theoretical examination of CG, this volume explores particular characters of CG as it's been adopted in China, contextual effects and consequences, and implications for future governance in China.

Author Biography

Yijia Jing is Professor in Public Administration and Associate Dean of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, China. He edits three journals on public administration and serves as vice president of the International Research Society for Public Management.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction
The Road to Collaborative Governance in China: An Introduction; Yijia Jing
PART I: COLLABORATIVE SERVICE DELIVERY
1. Network Structure, Resource Exchange and Motivations of Partnerships in a Community-Based Elderly Care Network; Bin Chen, Beilei Yang, and Shanshan Zou
2. The Challenges of Implementing Collaborative Governance in Hong Kong: Case Study of A Low-Income Family Community ; Helen Liu and Bin Chen
PART II: PARTNERSHIPS IN POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
3. Policies, Collaboration and Partnerships for Climate Protection in China ; Berthold Kuhn
4. Developing a Multi-collaborative Governance System: A Meta-analysis for the Inner Mongolia Grassland Region; Lihua Yang
5. Collaboration in China's E-Government: A Cultural-Theory Analysis; Jesper Schlæger
6. Collaborative Disaster Management: Lessons from Taiwan Local Governments; Mingfeng Kuo, Chun-yuan Wang, Yan-yi Chang, and Tzung-Shiun Li
7. A Study on Collaboration between Government and Enterprises in Construction and Operation of China's Highway; Guangjian Xu and Ying Wu
PART III: INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND INTERPERSONAL NETWORKS
8. China's Regional Networked Governance: The Case of '9+2' Networks of Interlocal Agreements; Bin Chen, Jie Ma, and Liming Suo
9. Public Decisions In Private Networks: The Implication Of Networking Upward, Downward And Outward Relations For Decision Making In China; Elaine Yi Lu