Reinventing government in China - A comparative analysis

The 1998 administrative reforms in China provide a pregnant context for com parative analysis of the "reinventing government" movement. Described in so me detail, the reforms are compared with the recent administrative reform e xperience in the United States. Significant similarities are illuminated us ing the prisms of ideology, politics, history, bureaucracy, and economics. Insight emerges on the role of experience, leadership, and technical-politi cal expertise in administrative development. The analysis concludes that th e art and science of global public administration can be advanced through i ncreased comparative analysis of non-Western developing systems with the mo re developed Western administrative states.