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Strong Institutions in Weak Polities

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Strong Institutions in Weak Polities explores state building and its supporting processes of institution-building in Republican China, focusing particularly on efforts to create strong, proactive central administrative organizations under exceptionally difficult circumstances between 1927 and 1940. After considering Nationalist efforts to establish a national civil service and examination system, it details the institution-building strategies pursued by three different central state organizations: the Sino-Foreign Salt Inspectorate, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr Strauss suggests that, far from being the morass of corruption and useless activity sometimes portrayed, all three of these organizations provided core services to the wider state building project, all were surprisingly successful and perceived to be of high status during their own time, and all pursued largely similar strategies of institution-building involving some combination of organizational insulation, bureaucratization around impersonal norms, and outwardly oriented goal achievement. This book will be of interest to all those involved in modern Chinese studies, comparative history, and politics, as well as to anyone interested in the nexus between state building and organization theory.Table of ContentIntroduction; 1. From Presiding to Centralizing State: The Late Imperial Legacy and Institution-Building Dilemmmas; 2. The Civil Service and State Building: The Examination Yuan in the 1930s; 3. Overcoming Institution-Building Dilemmas: The Sino-Foreign Salt Inspectorate; 4. The Salt Inspectorate in the Nationalist State: Tensions between Politics and Administration; 5. The Ministry of Finance and its Institution-Building Strategies; 6. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Institution Building in a Generalist Organization; 7. Conclusion; Appendix A. A Note on Sources; Appendix B. Biographical List of Sources; Appendix C. Chinese Terms and Names Used in the Text; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780198233428
Author: Julia C. Strauss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Binding: hardcover
Condition: new
Pages: 272
Language: english
Country of Origin: United States
Weight (g): 400
Height (mm): 30
Length (mm): 198
Width (mm): 132

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